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1) Crimson joy.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
Spencer is back on his home turf: a Boston of sleaze and surprises, dangerous days and deadly nights. A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't ctch him. called the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves a long-stemmed red rose on each woman he slays, he's terrifying every female who has to go out after dark. But once Spenser joins the chase, the murder's trail turns toward home when a rose is left for Spenser's own Susan Silverman....
2) Thin air
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 22
Language
English
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
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. And 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...
5) 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.
6) Chance
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
PI Spenser is hired to find the missing husband of a Boston gangster's daughter. The assignment leads him to the underworld in Las Vegas where he realizes the case is not one of young love, but control of the gangland in Boston.
7) 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.
8) 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.
9) Pastime
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Paul Giacomin's corrupt father and loose mother used the boys as a pawn in their violent race: only Spenser could call them off and straighten out the misled teen -- almost getting killed in the process. Paul is now twenty-four and reconciled to his mother's wanton ways. But when Patty Giacomin vanishes, Paul begs Spenser to help him rescue her from the clutches of her boyfriend, a shady character he's sure coerced his mother into running....
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...
13) 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.
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...
17) 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.
19) 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.
20) 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.
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