Robert B. Parker
1) Shrink rap
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
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
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Apache hit man, Wilson "Crow" Cromartie returns to Paradise after ten years to take Amber Francisco back to her father in Florida, but before returning he is suppose to kill her mother Fiona. It's up to police chief Jesse Stone to provide protection to them.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a thrill-seeking pair of serial killers who are targeting the residents of an affluent suburban town, police chief Jesse Stone finds his job complicated by local politicians, the media, his drinking problem, and his ex-wife.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It is the winter of 1879, and Dodge City has lost its snap. Thirty-one-year-old Wyatt Earp, assistant city marshal, loads his wife and all they own into a wagon, and goes with two of his brothers and their women to Tombstone, Arizona, land of the silver mines. There Earp becomes deputy sheriff, meeting up with the likes of Doc Holliday, Clay Allison, and Bat Masterson and encountering the love of his life, showgirl Josie Marcus. While navigating the...
6) Split Image
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011, ©2010
Language
English
Description
What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.
7) Playmates
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1990, ©1989
Language
English
Description
Spenser goes back to school-to investigate 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 ...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 34
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
©2007
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.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 21
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
PI Spenser of Boston investigates a stalking, the victim of which is a theatre company director, a probe that leaves him cold until an actor is gunned down. At that he swings into action, clashing with the Chinese Mafia and narrowly missing being killed himself.
11) Crimson joy
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 15
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1989, ©1988
Language
English
Description
Spenser 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....
12) Now and then
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 35
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2008, ©2007
Language
English
Description
Investigating a new client's unfaithful wife, Boston private eye Spenser finds himself in trouble when the case goes terribly wrong and three people wind up dead, a situation that reveals the wife's lover's ties to a terrorist organization.
13) Mortal Stakes #3
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1987, 1975
Language
English
Description
America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike three, with Spenser out for good!
14) Double deuce
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 19
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
When two people are shot outside of a housing project, Spenser and Hawk must battle street gangs and lethal drug dealers in order to track the killer.
15) Night passage
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004, 1997.
Language
English
Description
Bill Wiese saw the searing flames of hell, felt total isolation, and experienced the putrid and rotting stench, deafening screams of agony, terrorizing demons, and finally, the strong hand of God lifting him out of the pit. ?Tell them I am coming very, very soon!? Wiese's visit to the devil's lair lasted just twenty-three minutes, but he returned with vivid details etched in his memory. Since this life-changing ordeal, he has spent the last seven...
16) Painted ladies
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 38
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Spenser had a simple job--protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. No one was supposed to die. But the scholar had secrets no one knew, and uncovering them will endanger Spenser as well. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
17) School days
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 33
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2006, �2005
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.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 2
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Spenser investigates the kidnapping of fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett. His only lead, a vicious bodybuilder, isn't talking except with his knuckles, but with a boy's life on the line, Spenser can speak that brutal language too.
19) Chance
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 23
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Spenser and Hawk travel to Las Vegas to locate missing Anthony Meeker, husband to the daughter of a Mafia kingpin.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 6
Publisher
A Dell Book
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Spenser is hired to protect a lesbian, feminist activist, the eponymous Rachel Wallace. Spenser defends her more vigorously than she would like and she fires him. Shortly afterwards, she is kidnapped and the police have almost nothing to go on. Though no longer officially employed to protect her, Spenser feels duty-bound to find her because he could have protected her if he had followed her orders and held onto the job. His investigation leads him...