Robert B. Parker’s Spenser Reborn with Ace Atkins as Author
By Jake Hinkson
January 18, 2012When the news broke last year that Putnam had tapped mystery writer Ace Atkins to pen a new Spenser novel, I sat dumbfounded for a full minute. At first, it struck me as a purely bad idea, a cheap scheme by a publisher to keep a lucrative franchise going. I mean, how can you have…