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.

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 surprised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.

While investigating the mysterious legend of an ancient stone angel in Ireland, folklorist Keira Sullivan is rescued from disaster by Simon Cahill, who does not believe in myths or magic until he discovers that they are being followed by a great evil.

When dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, to find his missing daughter, the trail takes the two experienced detectives down a road of half-truths and corruption that leads them from Boston to Florida's Gulf Coast and back again.

Karen Nichols was pert, blonde, in love with her and her life when Patrick Kenzie first met her. But six months later, she jumped naked from Boston's Custom House, leaving behind a downward spiral of drug abuse, depression, and sexual misadventure. She was an utterly different woman and Kenzie wants to know why. What he finds is almost incomprehensible: a depraved stalker who carefully targeted Karen and slowly, methodically, exploited her every weakness,...

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.

Fifty Minutes is the title of a Hollywood based TV series being shot on location in Boston, but to Spenser it's "Trouble with a capital T". After signing on to protect its glamorous female star Jill Joyce, from an escalating chain of anonymous harassments to find himself saddled with a lot more than he bargained for.

Reluctantly, Sean Devine confronts the world of violence and pain when his childhood friend's daughter is murdered and the investigation brings him face to face with a vigilante killer and a man with a dangerous secret. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened, something that ended their friendship...

When an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe.

"It's a boiling summer in Boston. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes that end in abduction and death. The pattern suggest "the Surgeon," serial killer Warren Hoyt. But Hoyt is behind bars, so this time it's a copycat killer. Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case, determined to finally end Hoyt's influence."--from NoveList.