Robert B. Parker’s Broken Trust (Spenser)
Set-up, pacing, snark, even if the character isn’t quite aging as well as the series, fifty books or more, would suggest. No body drop until nearly a third of the way through, artfully combining location, fiction, and Red Sox, all in one.
Always amazed at the turn of a phrase, and the line between literary, and street.
Didn’t see that coming, sorry Boston lost Mookie, and want to go back.