With WONDERLAND, Ace Atkins flawlessly captures Parker's narrative voice and has written the best Spenser novel in his years. It reads like Parker in his prime, and even without Hawk appearing in the book. There isn't a single false note in the plotting, character, pacing or prose. It's an astonishing feat, it's like he's channeling Parker from the great beyond. It's actually better, and truer to Parker and his characters, than the last few Spenser novels that Parker himself wrote. It's a shame Atkins can't take on Jesse Stone and Virgil Cole, too.

I got a big kick out of GAME OF THRONES last Sunday...when virgin Jon Snow introduced the Wildings to cunnilingus and won the undying devotion of his lover, who was "amazed" at "that thing you did with your mouth." It was hilarious, matched only by the ridiculous moment in Jean Auel's novel VALLEY OF THE HORSES when blond Cro-Magnon cavewoman Ayla gave her astonished Neanderthal lover Jondalar a blowjob, demonstrating one of the ingenious reasons why Cro-Magnons would survive and Neanderthals wouldn't. It was a rare GAME OF THRONES misstep, but entertaining nonetheless.