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1) Perish twice
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall is forced onto dangerous ground, both physically and emotionally, when she is hired to protect a prominent feminist whose life is being threatened, while her older sister and her best friend both demand her help with their rocky marriages.
2) Pastime
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paul Giacomin enlists Spencer's help in localing his mother who has vanished. As they follow her trail, they are faced with a confrontation that may threaten their lives.
3) Chance
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
PI Spenser is hired to find the missing husband of a Boston gangster's daughter. The assignment leads him to the underworld in Las Vegas where he realizes the case is not one of young love, but control of the gangland in Boston.
4) Crimson joy
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 15
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the city of the Red Sox and the Red Line someone is leaving roses—red ones, of course—on the bodies of women he kills. For a psychologist named Susan Silverman and a P.I. named Spenser, the case is personal. But Spenser knows it's the wrong man. Because the right one has come calling on Susan—with a red rose in hand."--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert B. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series—a New York Times bestseller.
After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can’t help...
After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can’t help...
6) 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.
7) Widow's walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When 51-year-old Nathan Smith is found in his bed with a hole in his head, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride, Mary, as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty. But Mary Smith is entitled to the best defense she can afford, so Spenser hires on. Mary claims she was watching TV in the other room when the murder occurred. But the couple was seen fighting at a high-profile cocktail party earlier that evening...
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.
10) Paper doll
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spencer is hired by Loudon Tripp to find his wife's murderer. Tripp doesn't believe she was a victim of random violence.
11) Walking shadow
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) 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.
13) 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.
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