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Spenser novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
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...
22) The Judas goat
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Series
Spenser novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy. But there are nine killers to one Spenser -- long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation. The rest depends on a wild plan. Spenser will get one of the terrorists to play Judas Goat -- to lead him to others. Trouble is, he hasn't counted on her...
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 Spenser is a tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thinks that kind of code is obsolete.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"--
24) 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.
25) Mortal Stakes
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...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering. Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser's skill with...
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 45
Language
English
Description
"Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site ... She fell so hard for M. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost three hundred thousand dollars, hoping for a big return on her investment. But within weeks, both Welles and her money are gone. Her therapist, Dr. Susan Silverman, hands her Spenser's card. A self-proclaimed military hotshot, Welles had been a frequent guest on national news shows speaking with...
28) Stardust
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Series
Spenser novel volume 17
Language
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...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Spenser investigates the kidnapping of fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett. His only lead, a vicious bodybuilder, isn't talking except with his knuckles, but with a boy's life on the line, Spenser can speak that brutal language too.
New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers - Book 2 in the series - Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears....
30) Promised land
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Series
Spenser novels volume 4
Language
English
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Private investigator Spenser leaves Boston for summertime Cape Cod where he and his friend Susan Silverman find themselves involved with fools and villains whose concerns are extortion, robbery, and murder.
Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite.Spenser...
31) Paper doll
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Series
Spenser novels volume 20
Language
English
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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.
32) 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...
33) Angel eyes
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Series
Spenser novel volume 47
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
34) Bye bye baby
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Series
Spenser novels volume 50
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an outspoken young congresswoman running for re-election faces numerous death threats, her chief of staff reaches out to Spenser for security and he soon crosses paths with an extremist group called The Minutemen.
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 41
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
36) Double deuce
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 19
Language
English
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Description
When two people are shot outside of a housing project, Spenser and Hawk must battle street gangs and lethal drug dealers in order to track the killer
37) Hugger mugger
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spenser is back and embroiled in a dangerous and multi-layered case. Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, hires him to find out who. Spenser goes to Georgia to protect Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, he takes the case. Despite the veneer of civility, Spenser encounters...
38) Thin air
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 22
Language
English
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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
Spenser novel volume 49
Language
English
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Description
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.
40) 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.
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