Robert B. Parker

Thin ice: "When Jesse Stone's friend and fellow cop is shot during a visit to Boston, Stone risk is life and career to solve the crime while also investigating the disappearance of a missing child.Stone cold: Chief of Police Jesse Stone must track down a pair of serial killers and lead an investigation while trying to recover from alcoholism. Death in paradise: Stone tackles the mysterious murder of a teenage girl and the case of a battered wife...

After his involuntary retirement, Jesse Stone investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the Paradise police force deals with the arrogant new chief, who is the son-in-law of a town councilman.

Parker's found the pitch-- perfect voice for a guy who is straining every muscle to cut down on the booze, hang onto his new job as police cheif, and not get rattled by the body of a teenage girl.

When an unknown man is found murdered in Paradise, Jesse Stone will have his hands full finding out who he was—and what he was seeking.
When a body is discovered at the lake in Paradise, Police Chief Jesse Stone is surprised to find he recognizes the murder victim—the man had been at the same AA meeting as Jesse the evening before. But otherwise, Jesse has no clue as to the man's identity. He isn't a local, nor does he have ID on him,...

"Spenser's interest in teenage prostitute April Kyle leads him to Robert Rambeaux, ersatz Juilliard student and April's pimp, and to Ginger Bucky, another of Rambeaux's hookers, who suddenly turns up dead." --Random House.

Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime. But it's not just the victim's and killer's pasts that...

Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.

The Godwulf manuscript. For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder. The first book in the Spenser series. God save the child. Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old...