Robert B. Parker
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past...or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16. America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very...
2) Early Autumn
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Hired to kidnap a boy from his father, Spenser heads for the Maine woods to give a puny fifteen-year-old a crash course in survival.
“A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own. With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give...
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Crackling dialogue, plenty of action, and expert writing."-The New York Times Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman with a lot of enemies. Spenser is a tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thinks that kind of code is obsolete. Privately, they will never see eye to eye. But when Rachel vanishes. Spenser is ready to lay his life on the line-to find Rachel Wallace. "A rare kind of book."-Chicago Sun-Times"--
4) Valediction
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 11
Language
English
Description
"The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway."--
5) Stone cold
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a thrill-seeking pair of serial killers who are targeting the residents of an affluent suburban town, police chief Jesse Stone finds his job complicated by local politicians, the media, his drinking problem, and his ex-wife.
6) Sea change
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the body of a divorced Florida heiress washes ashore in Paradise, Jesse Stone discovers her kinky secrets--and a sordid past that casts suspicion on everyone she knew, from friends to family. Unfortunately no one is talking, so it's up to Stone to speak for the dead..
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 39
Pub. Date
2013.
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...
9) Blue screen
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sunny Randall is hired by rich producer Buddy Bollen to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint. Erin's sister and personal trainer end up dead and Sunny joins forces with Paradise, MA chief Jesse Stone to solve the case.
10) Melancholy baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
P.I. Sunny Randall uncovers some dark secrets of her own while helping a young woman locate her birth parents.
11) Paper doll
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 20
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Boston aristocrat Loudon Tripp hires Spenser to investigate his wife's murder, and Spenser soon uncovers high-class scandals and a corpse that might not be dead after all.
16) Thin air
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 22
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
When Lisa St. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective vanishes mysteriously, Spenser joins the search for the missing woman, following a dangerous trail that leads him to a sociopathic Latino ex-lover and into a deadly confrontation with Lisa's dark past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2006
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.
18) Sudden mischief
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 25
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
With some trepidation, PI Spenser of Boston agrees to represent a businessman in a sexual harassment suit, trepidation because the accused is a former husband of Susan, Spenser's lover. Sure enough, complications mount, legal and romantic. By the author of Small Vices.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2002
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...
20) Double play
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
Joseph Burke, physically and emotionally wounded in World War II, finds hope and healing during a season spent serving as bodyguard to Jackie Robinson in 1947, the year Robinson broke the color barrier...