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English
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Police chief Jesse Stone, dealing with a junior high school principal who conducted a surprise inspection of female students' underwear before a dance, investigates the crimes of a peeping Tom who breaks into the homes of his victims and forces them to strip at gunpoint.
2) Spare change
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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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...
4) School days
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Series
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English
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Spenser is hired by Lily Ellsworth to investigate her grandson's involvement in a school shooting.
Author
Series
Language
English
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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.
6) 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.
7) 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.
8) Back story
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Edition
Berkley mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
294 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly escorting the gold-digging and recently separated Heidi Bradshaw to her daughter's wedding, Boston private investigator Spenser hopes to reconnect with his beloved Susan at the wedding, but becomes enmeshed in a kidnapping plot involving his nemesis Rugar.
10) Blue screen
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sunny Randall is hired by rich producer Buddy Bollen to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint, when Erin's sister and personal trainer end up dead, and Sunny joins forces with Paradise, MA chief Jesse Stone to solve the case.
11) Sea change
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 5
Language
English
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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) Perish twice
Author
Series
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts coast town of Paradise. James Macklin sees Stiles Island as the ultimate investment opportunity: all he needs to do is invade the island, blow up the bridge, and loot the island. To realize his investment, Macklin, along with his devoted girlfriend, Faye, assembles a crew of fellow ex-cons --all experts in their fields--including Wilson Cromartie, a fearsome...
14) 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.
15) Shrink rap
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
16) Split image
Author
Series
Language
English
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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.
17) Melancholy baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
What to do when your ex-husband is about to marry? If you're Boston P.I. Sunny Randall, you jump into a new case: that of college student Sarah Markham, desperate to track down her birth parents.
18) 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...
19) Night passage
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Series
Language
English
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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...
20) Sudden mischief
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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