Robert B. Parker
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 42
Language
English
Description
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
Author
Series
Sunny Randall novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, PI Sunny Randall has a chance to return a favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over, and finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals. At the same time Sunny's cop contact Lee Farrell asks her to intervene with his niece, a college student who reported being the victim of a crime but seems to know more than she...
63) Poodle springs
Author
Language
English
Description
Philip Marlowe marries a rich, beautiful society lady who wants him to settle down. But old habits die hard, and Marlowe soon is back in business, enmeshed in a case involving pornography, bigamy, and murder.
64) Hush money
Author
Series
Spencer volume 26
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Spenser has his hands full when he takes two cases at once. In the first, a high-minded university might be hiding a killer within a swamp of political correctness. And in the other. Spenser comes to the aid of a stalking victim, only to find himself the unwilling object of the woman's dangerous affections
66) Ceremony
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 9
Publisher
Delacorte Press /S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kinjo Heywood is a hard-nosed linebacker for the New England Patriots who's earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing his client. Heywood's troubles seem to be tied to a nightclub shooting from two years earlier. When Heywood's nine-year old son, Akira, is kidnapped, ransom demands are given,...
70) Chasing the bear
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
Spenser reflects back to when he was fourteen years old and how he helped his best friend Jeannie when she was abducted by her abusive father.
71) Edenville Owls
Author
Publisher
Sleuth/Philomel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover theidentity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
72) Playmates
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 16
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Spenser scores again! In Robert B. Parker's newest, most electrifying bestseller, America's favorite iron-pumping, gourmet-cooking private eye smells corruption in college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. And if Spenser doesn't watch his own footwork, the guilty parties will shave a few years off his life.
73) Valediction
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 11
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his number-one priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat from the fanatics or their mobster friends con make the tough detective cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and...
Author
Series
Cole and Hitch novel volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Itinerent lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return in a new installment of the series created by Robert B. Parker"--
After hunting down the notorious desperado Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch return him to San Cristobal to stand trial. No sooner do they remand him into custody than a major bank robbery occurs and the lawmen find themselves tasked with another job: investigating the robbery of the Comstock...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica. Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world's richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain's beautiful wife, Laura, comes to Spenser hoping...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions. The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable...
Author
Language
English
Description
Newly appointed as Territorial Marshals, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are traveling by train on a mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border. But when the Governor of Texas climbs aboard with his wife, daughters, and $500,000 in tow, the journey becomes a lot more complicated. An old enemy -- still carrying plenty of scars from the last time he saw Virgil -- has hitched a ride. He's not alone. And he's got vengeance on his mind.