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Summary: A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1988
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: The wives of some of Boston's wealthiest men have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with the same cad who's blackmailing them, and Spenser's been hired to stop him. But when the women start turning up dead one by one, Spenser's new assignment becomes murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: When infamous actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of rape in murder, the Boston PD calls on Spenser to make heads or tails of the case. Although the evidence is mounting against Jumbo, Spenser makes a break when he teams up with Jumbo's bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and uncovers some secrets involving the murder victim.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Parker 2011Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: 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 #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser 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 willing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: When a mature, beautiful, and composed April Kyle strides into Spenser's office, the Boston PI barely hesitates before recognizing his once and future client. Now a well-established madam herself, April is still looking for Spenser's approval, and it takes her a moment before she can ask him for his assistance. April claims to be in the dark about who is trying to shake her and her business...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: Hired by Loudon Tripp, an aggrieved Boston aristocrat who believes his late wife Olivia's brutal street slaying to be something other than random violence, Spenser suspects that Tripp's picture-perfect version of his family's life is false.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: P.I. Spenser heads to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires. This western idyll is being threatened by a local gang of desert rats, misfits, drunks and scavengers the police seem powerless to corral. Led by a charismatic individual known as The Preacher, this motley band of thieves selectively exploits the town,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParker, Robert B.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M ParCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: Hired by Marlene Cowley to find out whether her husband, Trent, is cheating on her, Spenser soon realizes that the two-timing husband has hired an investigator of his own. Even more shocking for Spenser is the discovery that the Cowleys are a part of an intimate circle that regularly tunes in to the talk-show host Darin O'Mara's unconventional-- and possibly deadly-- views on cross-connubial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2007
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION ParkerCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M ParCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ParParker, Robert B.
Summary: Spenser knows something's amiss the moment Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guy's aggressive yet wary, in the way men frightened for their marriages always are. So when Doherty asks Spenser to investigate his wife Jordan's abnormal behavior, Spenser agrees. A job's a job, after all. Not surprisingly, Spenser catches Jordan with another man, tells Dennis what he's found out, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: With some trepidation, PI Spenser of Boston agrees to represent a businessman in a sexual harassment suit, trepidation because the accused is a former husband of Susan, Spenser's lover. Sure enough, complications mount, legal and romantic. By the author of Small Vices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1998
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Summary: When 51-year-old Nathan Smith, a once confirmed bachelor, is found in his bed with a hole in his head made by a 38-caliber slug, it's not hard to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty. But given that Mary Smith is entitled to the best defence she can afford and thanks to Nathan's millions, she can afford plenty. Spenser hires...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: During a 1974 holdup in a Boston bank by a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade, Emily Gordon is shot and killed. Nobody saw who shot her and the perpetrators have remained at large for three decades. Emily's daughter decides she needs closure regarding her mother's death so she turns to Spenser to find the answers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband Trent is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for; not only does he find a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint efforts, Spenser soon finds himself investigating both individual depravity and corporate corruption.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: Boston P.I. Spenser and his redoubtable sidekick, Hawk, seek revenge on a cold-blooded killer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ParkeParker, Robert B.
Summary: When a mature, beautiful, and composed April Kyle strides into Spenser's office, the Boston PI barely hesitates before recognizing his once and future client. Now a well-established madam herself, April is still looking for Spenser's approval, and it takes her a moment before she can ask him for his assistance. April claims to be in the dark about who is trying to shake her and her business...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999