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Spenser novel volume 36
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English
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Parker once again proves he is a force of nature in this mystery where a hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible--the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past.
2) Potshot
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Spenser novel volume 28
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English
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Boston P.I. Spenser returns—heading west to the rich man’s haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the pressures of their high-flying lifestyles.
Potshot overcame its rough reputation as a rendezvous for old-time mountain men who lived off the land, thanks to a healthy infusion of new blood and even newer money. But when this western idyll...
Potshot overcame its rough reputation as a rendezvous for old-time mountain men who lived off the land, thanks to a healthy infusion of new blood and even newer money. But when this western idyll...
3) Cold service
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Spenser novel volume 32
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English
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Boston P.I. Spenser and his redoubtable sidekick, Hawk, seek revenge on a cold-blooded killer.
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Spenser novel volume 40
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English
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"Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise 16 year old girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for"-- Provided by publisher.
5) Back story
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Spenser novel volume 30
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English
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During a 1974 holdup in a Boston bank by a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade, Emily Gordon is shot and killed. Nobody saw who shot her and the perpetrators have remained at large for three decades. Emily's daughter decides she needs closure regarding her mother's death so she turns to Spenser to find the answers.
The ever-astonishing, man-about-Boston-town Spenser tries to solve a thirty-year-old mystery of a murder in a...
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Spenser novel volume 38
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower--and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment...
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Spenser novel volume 21
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English
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PI Spenser of Boston investigates a stalking, the victim of which is a theatre company director, a probe that leaves him cold until an actor is gunned down. At that he swings into action, clashing with the Chinese Mafia and narrowly missing being killed himself.
8) Slow burn
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Spenser novel volume 45
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English
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"Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in the latest adventure in the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston's South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Most at the department...
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Spenser novel volume 43
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English
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"The iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser returns in an outstanding new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots' marquee players-a hard-nosed linebacker who's earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing...
10) Sacred
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English
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The Boston private eyes, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, are hired by a dying billionaire to find his missing daughter who has been grieving the murder of her mother. The trail leads them to a religious cult in Florida and more murders.
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Spenser novel volume 1
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English
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Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't...
12) Stardust
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Spenser novel volume 17
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English
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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.
First, there’s Jill herself. She’s spoiled, arrogant, drugged out—and made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her. Does she imagine it or is it real?
Spenser monitors her neurosis, but finds evidence of harassment. It escalates...
First, there’s Jill herself. She’s spoiled, arrogant, drugged out—and made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her. Does she imagine it or is it real?
Spenser monitors her neurosis, but finds evidence of harassment. It escalates...
13) Angel eyes
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Spenser novel volume 47
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English
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"In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser heads to the City of Angels to meet old friends and new enemies in a baffling missing person case that might shake Tinseltown to its core"--
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Spenser novel volume 49
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English
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When his apprentice Mattie’s childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects is murdered, Spenser traces the victim’s demise to an international sex-trafficking ring that has been operating with impunity under the protection of a well-connected billionaire.
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HarperTorch
Pub. Date
[2000], c1994
Language
English
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A cadre of powerful Massachusetts politicians offers Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro big money for a small job: find the missing cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential Statehouse documents. But there's much more to this crime than anyone realizes. What the woman was really after was justice--and out on the Boston streets, the truth can turn stark and ugly. .
16) Widow's walk
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Spenser novels volume 29
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English
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When 51-year-old Nathan Smith, a once-confirmed bachelor, is found in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38-caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger.
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Spenser novel volume 44
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English
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"P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts,...
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Harper
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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A man is murdered in Boston by crucifixion, recalling a similar murder 20 years earlier for which a killer is serving time in prison. So it can't be him, or can it? As bodies pile up PIs Angela Dimassi Gennaro and Patrick Kenzie go to work. By the author of a Drink Before the War.
"He came during the warmest, most erratic autumn on record, when the weather seemed to have flipped completely off its usual course, when everything seemed upside down,...
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When a former client jumps naked from a Boston landmark, Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why. Once a perky young woman in love with life, her suicide is the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction.What Kenzie discovers is a sadistic stalker who targeted the woman and methodically drove her to her death a monster that the law cant touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle...
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Spenser novel volume 41
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English
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"Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
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