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1) School days
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
2) Sea change
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When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be a treacherous and emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida; she also had a penchant for steamy sex and was an enthusiastic participant in a video depicting...
Author
Series
Spenser novels 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."--from NoveList.
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Spenser novels volume 12
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English
Description
Spenser loves just one woman, even though she's the one he's just lost. So when her desperate letter arrives, he doesn't think twice. He has to free his best friend from a life sentence, and get Susan out of trouble.
7) Sixkill
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
When infamous actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of rape and murder, the Boston PD calls on Spenser to make heads or tails of the case. Although the evidence is mounting against Jumbo, Spenser makes a break when he teams up with Jumbo's bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and uncovers some secrets involving the murder victim.
8) Perish twice
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Boston private investigator Sunny Randall is forced onto dangerous ground, both physically and emotionally, when she is hired to protect a prominent feminist whose life is being threatened, while her older sister and her best friend both demand her help with their rocky marriages.
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A broken marriage and a drinking problem propels LAPD cop Jesse Stone into accepting what he believes will be a peaceful job as police chief in the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts, but he quickly learns that the surface quiet of the community masks a hotbed of crime, and he must choose whether he will be a hero or a dupe.
10) Bad business
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Series
Spenser novels volume 31
Language
English
Description
When Marlene Rowley hires Spenser to follow her cheating husband, Spenser finds not only a two-timing spouse, but another detective hired to shadow the wayward Marlene. Not the most trusting couple in town--but, as in Spenser's about to learn, certainly one of the most dangerous.
11) Double deuce
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Series
Spenser novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
"The Double Deuce is a Boston housing project. Good people live in poverty there. So do the Hobarts, a gang that relieves boredom by shooting pedestrians. To protect the residents of the Double Deuce, urban gunslinger Hawk enlists the aid of private investigator Spenser. Together, they try to track down Major Johnson, the gang leader responsible for a particularly tragic drive-by shooting."--from NoveList.
12) Widow's walk
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Series
Spenser novels volume 29
Language
English
Description
When Nathan Smith, a prominent local banker and millionaire, is murdered, Spenser is called in to investigate Nathan's young wife, Mary, and as the evidence stacks up against her, Spenser discovers that Mary's mysterious past has put his own life in danger.
13) Back story
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Series
Spenser novels volume 30
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English
Description
Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.
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A gang of robbers lands on an island in Massachusetts and they proceed to rob its wealthy inhabitants. First, they destroy the bridge to the mainland. Jesse Stone, the alcoholic chief of police in Paradise, a town on the mainland, organizes a relief operation. By the author of Night Passage.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Spenser is hired to protect a boy, Paul Giacomin, from being kidnapped in a custody quarrel. He ends up taking care of the boy, who is socially immature, having been ignored by his parents, only used as a pawn in their quarrelling. Spenser takes him in and helps him mature through learning to box, exercising, weight-lifting and building a cottage. At the same time, with the help of Hawk, he collects enough information about the parents that they leave...
16) Paper doll
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Series
Spenser novels volume 20
Language
English
Description
"Spenser tracks a mystery woman who refuses to rest in peace in Parker's most beguiling thriller. Hired by a Boston aristocrat who believes his late wife's brutal street slaying is something other than random violence, Spenser immediately senses his client's picture-perfect version of his family's life is a world of grand illusion, peopled by cardboard cutouts and seething with scandal."--from NoveList.
17) Shrink rap
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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.
18) Hugger mugger
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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...
19) Spare change
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English
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"Called back from retirement when a serial killer from a long-unsolved case reemerges, detective Phil Randall teams up with daughter and Boston private eye Sunny Randall throughout a series of murder investigations in which the victims resemble Sunny."--from NoveList.
20) Hush money
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Robinson Nevins, the son of Hawk's boyhood mentor, is denied tenure at the University, Hawk asks Spencer to investigate. It appears the denial is tied to the suicide of a young gay activist, Prentice Lamont.
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