Robert B. Parker
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Series
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
2) Spare change
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
At the start of Parker's engaging sixth Sunny Randall novel (after Blue Screen), the cop-turned-PI helps her father track down a Boston serial killer whose depredations begin again after a 20-year hiatus. The "spare change" killer executes victims with a single shot to the head, leaving three coins near the body. Sunny's dad, Phil, headed the old task force formed to catch the killer, who wrote Phil taunting letters as the killings piled up. A new...
3) Now and then
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Spenser's client, Dennis Doherty, Doherty's wife, and her lover are found dead, Spenser tries to right the wrongs by avenging his client's death.
4) Brimstone
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
5) Family honor
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy involving state government.
6) Stardust
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 17
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way.
7) Sea change
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
8) Resolution
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
9) Cold service
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead, Spenser embarks on an epic journey ro rehabilitate his friend in body and spirit.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Ten years after hit man Crow Cromartie escapes with the spoils of a lucrative heist, Massachusetts police officer Jesse Stone is astonished when the fugitive enlists his cooperation with a job gone bad involving a young woman whose father wants her mother killed.
11) Appaloosa
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who...
12) Blue-eyed devil
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Refusing recruitment by ambitious new chief Amos Callico, itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch protect local merchants whom the chief is harassing for protection money, a situation that escalates to the shooting of a politically connected landowner's son.
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English
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Description
They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous obsessions he inherited from his father... Conn, the patriarch, a lawless cop who spawned a circle of vengeance and betrayal that would span half a century......
14) Small vices
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 24
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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.
16) High profile
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
290 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paradise, Massachusetts police chief Jesse Stone must investigate the murder of a controversial talk-show host and a young woman, found dead a few days later. The medical examiner reveals a heartbreaking link between the victims.
18) Silent night
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm.
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...
19) Double deuce
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spencer and his cohort Hawk investigate a murder in the housing projects of Boston and are drawn into a world of violence and hate.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 6
Publisher
Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head. "(Spenser) gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself".--The Boston Globe.