Robert B. Parker
81) Edenville Owls
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
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 the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall finds herself in the middle of a shooting war with the mob when she is hired by a wealthy family to locate their runaway daughter Millicent, and must call upon her underworld contacts to rescue the teen who has turned to prostitution.
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Series
Spencer volume 21
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
Spenser and Hawk solve the murder of an actor during the performance of a politically controversial play.
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
At the start of Parker's engaging sixth Sunny Randall novel, the cop-turned-PI helps her father track down a Boston serial killer whose depredations begin again after a 20-year hiatus. The "spare change" killer executes victims with a single shot to the head, leaving three coins near the body. Sunny's dad, Phil, headed the old task force formed to catch the killer, who wrote Phil taunting letters as the killings piled up. A new killing and a fresh...
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Series
Spencer volume 24
Pub. Date
1997
Description
When Spenser is hired to uncover the truth about a coed's murder, he finds twisted cops, spoiled rich kids, and an assassin's bullet.
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Series
Spencer volume 26
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Spenser almost gets himself killed trying to help out friends when he agrees to check out the reasons why Robinson Nevins was denied tenure at the university, while also attempting to come to the aid of K. C. Roth, a stalking victim who finds Spenser very much to her liking.
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Series
Spencer volume 16
Pub. Date
c1989
Description
Spenser, a hard-boiled Boston private eye, investigates when the leading college basketball forward appears to be shaving points.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone character volume 1
Pub. Date
2001, c1997
Description
Fired from Los Angeles for drinking, Jesse Stone lands a job as police chief in a Massachusetts town whose leaders want a pushover. When a white supremacist militiaman tries murder, Stone surprises them.
Author
Series
Spenser volume 36.5
Pub. Date
c2009
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.
Author
Series
Spencer volume 14
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
Spenser is called in to investigate the murder of a reporter working on a story about the cocaine trade. Threats by the local police and a Columbian produce dealer lead Spenser to dig deeper.
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Series
Spencer volume 19
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Spencer and his cohort Hawk investigate a murder in the housing projects of Boston and are drawn into a world of violence and hate.
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Series
Spencer volume 13
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Nice girls don't. But blond, beautiful April Kyle does. She's a hooker hooked on the wrong guy -- and she's on her way to trouble. So is Spenser. Looking out for April has landed him in the crud of Times Square. It's not a long way to big-business boardrooms where blood money get laundered into long green, sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Erin Flint is on all the magazine covers, and her last movie was boffo box office. Her lover-manager, Buddy Bollen, who also owns a major-league baseball team, wants Flint to play for his team--a cameo, but timed to coincide with the release of her next movie. But Erin fears there may be an attempt on her life, so Boston investigator Sunny Randall is hired to be her bodyguard. While working on her batting skills in the resort town of Paradise, one...
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Series
Spencer volume 18
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
Paul Giacomin enlists Spencer's help in localing his mother who has vanished. As they follow her trail, they are faced with a confrontation that may threaten their lives.