K's Reviews > The Mourner

This was a terrific entry into the very entertaining Parker series and among the best of those I've read to this point.
Don Westlake (aka Richard Stark) was phenomenally talented and the Parker character is just plain fun to follow.

Parker is all business and as unemotional as they come. He does what needs doing to secure his money-- if killing is required, so be it-- but he believes in economy of effort, so killing isn't his first choice. It's just the implacable nature by which he operates that makes the character stand out. Stark has a clever plot with nice, even pacing here.

He has written books with more plot twists than this one, otherwise I'd have rated it a 5. As it is, 4.5 stars for yet another winner in the Parker series.