Robert B. Parker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his team-mates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late summer twilight. But then a voice, scared, calls out to him from the edge of a nearby lake. He walks to the sound, where two men squat at the water's edge. In front of them, face down, is something that used to be a girl. The local cops haven't...
2) School days
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
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.
3) Shrink rap
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston private detective Sunny Randall agrees to protect a touring writer from her abusive ex-husband, but she quickly learns that the stalker in question is much more sophisticated, intelligent, and potentially deadly than most.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 42
Language
English
Formats
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...
5) Perish twice
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Boston P.I Sunny Randall comes to the aid of three very different women in three very dangerous situations, any or all of which could prove fatal.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005, ©2004
Language
English
Description
Private detective Sunny Randall takes the case of college student Sarah Markham, a young woman searching for her birth parents, but her investigation uncovers dangerous secrets that could also lead to painful secrets about her own past.
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the turbulence of 1920s Ireland, Conn Sheridan, a reckless young IRA captain, builds a new life as a Boston police officer, but the betrayals, violence, and obsessions of the past continue to haunt him and his family for three generations.
10) Chance
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 23
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2010], c1996
Language
English
Description
Spenser and Hawk travel to Las Vegas to locate missing Anthony Meeker, husband to the daughter of a Mafia kingpin.
11) High profile
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin/Berkley Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A controversial talk-show host is found dead in a public park with three bullets in his chest. Then the body of his female assistant is discovered in a dumpster. Jesse Stone must find the killer, fast, because the victims are linked by something more than murder.
12) 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.
14) Family honor
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2000.
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.
15) Widow's walk
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 29
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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 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.
19) Appaloosa
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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...
20) Potshot
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 28
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002, ©2001
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.