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Analysis Of The Movie ' Sunny Randall '

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The “Sunny Randall” series follows main character Sunny Randall, who is a female detective. She was created by Parker so that Helen Hunt would play her in a movie, but it never happened. He kept the series going because his publisher asked him to. Both Randall and Spenser (another Boston detective that was created by Parker) have things in common, but also things that make them unique. There are six novels to the series.

Sunny Randall is a private investigator in the city of Boston, and used to be a cop. She has a bull terrier named Rosie, is a college graduate, and she would like to be a painter. Randall also has an ex-husband who is named Richie and Richie is from a mob family. Her father, Phil Randall, was also a cop, and he calls on Sunny to help investigate a case later on in the series (“Spare Change”, the sixth novel in the series).

Sunny also appears in Parker 's “Jesse Stone” series of novels and Jesse in turn appears in some of the Sunny books. This is a result of the two dating for a little while before they both realize that their relationship just is not going to work. It is also a result of Sunny appearing in “Split Image”, a Jesse Stone novel where she had a case of her own and carried a good portion of the novel all on her own.

“Family Honor” is the first novel of the “Sunny Randall” series written by Robert B. Parker and was released in the year 1999. When Sunny Randall takes a case from a wealthy family so that she can find their lost teenage daughter,

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