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Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 34
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.
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) Chance
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 23
Language
English
Formats
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) Small vices
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 24
Language
English
Description
In Boston, a girl student is murdered and police arrest a black man who has a history of sexual assault. The prosecution has no problem obtaining a conviction, even though the man is not guilty. PI Spenser is hired to find the man who is.
5) Spare change
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the Spare Change Killer resurfaces after three decades they call on retired cop, Phil Randall who headed the original investigation and he calls in his daughter Sunny for help. She's sure she has found the killer but has no proof. When the next two victims resemble Sunny her father insists she drop the case, but she wants to create a trap to catch him.
7) Now and then
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 35
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Investigating a case of infidelity sounds simple—until it plunges Spenser and his beloved Susan into a politically charged murder plot that’s already left three people dead.
9) Paper doll
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 20
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faced with nothing but dead ends in her boyfriend Sam Gianelli's secret indictment for murder, Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle goes back to basics and takes a case for a nervous bride-to-be who wants to make sure her fiancé is being faithful. Simple enough, but when her client turns up dead, Carlotta catches the kind of break she wished she hadn't--From publisher description.
13) Hush money
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two new cases will test Spenser's resolve, and his sleuthing skills--the first involving a university professor who may be protecting a murderer, and the second, a stalking victim who has taken a shine to Spenser. Reprint.
14) Sudden mischief
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 25
Language
English
Formats
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
Angela Matelli mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
17) Missing Eden
Author
Series
Publisher
Worldwide
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A former superior officer asks ex-Marine Angela Matelli to locate his missing teenage daughter
18) Shrink rap
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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 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...
20) The blue widows
Author
Series
Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea novels volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Discovering a document in Arabic at the site of a terrorist hideout in Gaza, Danielle Barnea, head of Israel's National Police, sends the pages to detective Ben Kamal, who reveals that they call for the total destruction of America.
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