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Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 6
Publisher
A Dell Book
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Spenser is hired to protect a lesbian, feminist activist, the eponymous Rachel Wallace. Spenser defends her more vigorously than she would like and she fires him. Shortly afterwards, she is kidnapped and the police have almost nothing to go on. Though no longer officially employed to protect her, Spenser feels duty-bound to find her because he could have protected her if he had followed her orders and held onto the job. His investigation leads him...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A private detective's investigation into the theft of a rare manuscript from a university library brings him face to face with clues to a young man's murder.
4) Small vices
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellis Alves is no angel. But his lawyer says he was framed for the murder of college student Melissa Henderson and asks Spenser for help. From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects, including Melissa's rich-kid, tennis star boyfriend. But when a man with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, the hope for justice may die with him.
5) Spare change
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall teams up with her father to solve a thirty-year-old case involving a serial killer who has come out of hiding three decades after claiming his last victim.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 21
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
PI Spenser of Boston investigates a stalking, the victim of which is a theatre company director, a probe that leaves him cold until an actor is gunned down. At that he swings into action, clashing with the Chinese Mafia and narrowly missing being killed himself.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a thrill-seeking pair of serial killers who are targeting the residents of an affluent suburban town, police chief Jesse Stone finds his job complicated by local politicians, the media, his drinking problem, and his ex-wife.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 37
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower--and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment...
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A gang of robbers lands on an island in Massachusetts and they proceed to rob its wealthy inhabitants. First, they destroy the bridge to the mainland. Jesse Stone, the alcoholic chief of police in Paradise, a town on the mainland, organizes a relief operation. By the author of Night Passage.
10) Sea change
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2007, ©2006
Language
English
Description
When the body of a divorced Florida heiress washes ashore in Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone learns of the woman's past appearances in an erotic video and finds it suspicious that the victim's family seems unaffected by her death.
11) School days
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 33
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2006, �2005
Language
English
Description
Lily Ellsworth the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence.
12) Double deuce
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 19
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
When two people are shot outside of a housing project, Spenser and Hawk must battle street gangs and lethal drug dealers in order to track the killer.
13) Split Image
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011, ©2010
Language
English
Description
What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private investigator Spenser leaves Boston for summertime Cape Cod where he and his friend Susan Silverman find themselves involved with fools and villains whose concerns are extortion, robbery, and murder.
15) Widow's walk
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nathan Smith, a prominent local banker and millionaire, is murdered, Spenser is called in to investigate Nathan's young wife, Mary, and as the evidence stacks up against her, Spenser discovers that Mary's mysterious past has put his own life in danger.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 42
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"It's December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he's confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities for the homeless and lost. Slide's mentor, Jackie Alvarez, is being threatened, and Street Business is in danger of losing its tenuous foothold in the community, turning...
17) Night passage
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004, 1997.
Language
English
Description
Bill Wiese saw the searing flames of hell, felt total isolation, and experienced the putrid and rotting stench, deafening screams of agony, terrorizing demons, and finally, the strong hand of God lifting him out of the pit. ?Tell them I am coming very, very soon!? Wiese's visit to the devil's lair lasted just twenty-three minutes, but he returned with vivid details etched in his memory. Since this life-changing ordeal, he has spent the last seven...
18) Potshot
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 28
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Boston private investigator Spenser heads west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires, where he has been hired to investigate a murder in which the suspects are a local gang of misfits, desert rats, drunks, and thieves led by a charismatic individual known only as The Preacher.
19) Chance
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 23
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Spenser and Hawk travel to Las Vegas to locate missing Anthony Meeker, husband to the daughter of a Mafia kingpin.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 2
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Spenser investigates the kidnapping of fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett. His only lead, a vicious bodybuilder, isn't talking except with his knuckles, but with a boy's life on the line, Spenser can speak that brutal language too.
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