Melancholy Baby
Kindle Edition
Penguin Publishing Group · Ebook · October 4, 2005
When Sunny Randall helps a young woman locate her birth parents, she uncovers the dark truth about her own past.
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- Who it’s for
- A category-friendly mystery with a sharper edge than the label implies.
- Genres
- Private Eye Fiction, Women Detectives, Hard-Boiled Mystery
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, October 4, 2005
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When Sunny Randall helps a young woman locate her birth parents, she uncovers the dark truth about her own past.
Sharper Comfort
A category-friendly mystery with a sharper edge than the label implies.
Come here for
- A mystery-forward read
- Edgier than the cozy shelf suggests
Expect
- Amateur-sleuth energy
- Easy to dip into between longer reading stretches
Where it sits
| Private Eye Fiction | 68% |
|---|---|
| Hard-Boiled Mystery | 55% |
| Women Detectives | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard-Boiled Mystery
- Women Detectives
- Suspense
- Authors
- Robert B. Parker
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- October 4, 2005
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Hard-Boiled Mystery