Robert B. Parker's 5th's Sunny Randall's Novel

Blue Screen by Robert B. Parker

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


It was a good novel, but again I thought the end needed beefing up.
Buddy Bollen, a C movie producer, who made his fortune from a dot-com deal, hires Sunny Randall to protect his girlfriend, Erin Flint, a sexy starlet who is a legend in her own mind. Sunny takes the job, and soon things get complicated. Erin's assistant, Misty, is found dead in the lavish home they share with sugar daddy Bollen. Erin wants Sunny to take charge of the investigation. She doesn’t trust the local Police. “…I'm not leaving it in the hands of some small-town cow-shit sheriff.” She says to Sunny.
Sunny takes the case and in the process develops a relationship with Jesse Stone, chief of police in Paradise, Massachusetts. Jesse and Sunny strike it on from the beginning, while investigating and detecting, they learn about each other-and themselves. Both have hang-ups about their ex partners.
Trying to find out the Misty's murderer reveals a lot of Erin's past and Buddy’s businesses. Misty was her younger sister. Both became prostitutes when they were at their teens. Erin married her pimp, Gerard Basgall. Buddy Bollen's entertainment business was made up of shady film deals, financed by a mobster out for revenge.
It would have been nice if Parker developed what happened to Buddy, but he reaches the end a little too soon. Sunny and Jesse find out who killed Misty, but they realize it was an accidental death. Erin says she did it, and Gerard says he did. Sunny and Jesse let them go.



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