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2) 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.
3) School days
Author
Series
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.
4) Small vices
Author
Series
Spenser novels 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.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Robert B. Parker takes readers into the murky big-city underground where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute, and finds himself traveling amidst the sleaze of Times Square where sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 12
Language
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
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...
8) Bad business
Author
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.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Private-eye Spenser is in Hollywood to protect a beautiful reporter investigating corruption and racketeering in the movie industry, and together they search for a murderer in Tinsel Town."--from NoveList.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
"Boston private eye Spenser's search for a missing high-school girl takes him to Boston's Combat Zone, to high-class, specialty brothels, and back to the straight world whose righteous facade overlap pervasive corruption."--from NoveList.
11) Stardust
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
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.
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...
13) Back story
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 30
Language
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.
15) Widow's walk
Author
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.
16) Sudden mischief
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Spenser comes to the aid of his long-time love, Susan, in her efforts to help her ex-husband Brad Sterling, he finds himself caught up in a twisted battle against some very bad men, shadowy mob connections, and a woman tormented by her past
17) Playmates
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
Spenser, the tough-guy private eye from Boston, investigates Dwayne Woodcook, an arrogant athlete who the directors of Taft U. suspect is shaving points in basketball games.
18) The Judas goat
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Private eye Spenser returns to take on the terrorists who killed his client's wife and daughters in a London bombing, chasing them across Europe to the Montreal Olympics and a devastating climax."--from NoveList.
19) Double deuce
Author
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.
20) Paper doll
Author
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.
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