My Reading Nook

Spare Change is a Sunny Randall novel.

Twenty years ago, Sunny’s father Phil had a series of unsolved murders where the murderer left his victims with a signature of a scattering of coins — never the same coins, but always three of them, he was given the name of the Spare Change killer.

Now he’s apparently resurfaced as victims who exhibit the same M.O. are turning up in all the wrong places and Phil has been brought back out of retirement to head up a task force and asks Sunny to work on it with him. Together the father-daughter team must ferret out who the killer is and stop him.

Sunny comes up with the idea of closing off the area of the last killing and processing everyone present; getting names, addresses, and doing comprehensive investigations of any who fit the profile of the killer. She comes up with several likely suspects and when she personally interviews Bob Johnson, her instincts set off major alarms, but he’s smart and cagey and doesn’t give too much away, so it’s back to careful policework to get him tripped up and caught.

Spare Change by Robert B Parker
Published by The Berkley Publishing Group 2007
ISBN: 978-0-425-22192-1