Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 34
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now she is a madam of an up-scale, all-female operation that some men are trying to take away from her. April claims she doesn't know who is after her business, but Spenser finds ties to organized crime. Spenser without much surprise also finds that April, the thugs and everyone else involved is lying to 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.
3) 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.
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 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 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.
8) Shrink rap
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2002
Language
English
9) Pastime
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Certain that his mother's shady boyfriend is behind her disappearance, Paul Giacomin calls upon the skills of Spenser to help him find his missing mother.
10) Mortal Stakes #3
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1987, 1975
Language
English
Description
America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike three, with Spenser out for good!
11) 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.
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.
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.
14) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Apache hit man, Wilson "Crow" Cromartie returns to Paradise after ten years to take Amber Francisco back to her father in Florida, but before returning he is suppose to kill her mother Fiona. It's up to police chief Jesse Stone to provide protection to them.
16) Playmates
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1990, ©1989
Language
English
Description
Spenser goes back to school-to investigate corruption in college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. And if Spenser doesn't watch his own footwork, the guilty parties will shave a few years off his life ...
17) 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.
19) Paper doll
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 20
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1994, ©1993
Language
English
Description
Spenser is hired by Loudon Tripp to find his wife's murderer. Tripp doesn't believe she was a victim of random violence.
20) 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.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request