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(Fictitious character) Spenser Fiction Boston (Mass.) Fiction Boston (Mass.) Juvenile fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Massachusetts Boston Missing persons Murder Investigation Fiction Police Massachusetts Boston Fiction Private investigators Private investigators Massachusetts Boston FictionMullen, Thomas
Summary: "A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in World War II-era Boston. June, 1943. Wartime tensions are running high, and an atmosphere of distrust and unease is dividing friends and neighbors. The two protagonists of Thomas Mullen's gripping historical thriller find themselves at the center of a dangerous tinderbox, trying to douse the sparks before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, this novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. It tells the story of two families--one black, one white--swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEHGerber, Alyson
Summary: "Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Summary: Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days and she wants Boston's top detective, D.D. Warren, to handle the death investigation. Each year at 8:00 pm on January 21st a woman has died, and all have been childhood friends from a small town in New Hampshire. Grant is the only remaining member of the group, but is she the next victim or the perfect perpetrator?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYS GARWechsler, Pamela
Summary: Chief of homicide district attorney Abby Endicott hasn't had the easiest adjustment to normal life. Her wealthy Boston family has cut her off because of her dangerous job, her new apartment with her musician boyfriend Ty is not up to her standards, and her impending position as godmother to her new niece or nephew is overwhelming. However, her personal life is about to be put on hold when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WECGardner, Lisa
Summary: Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will, searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fic GarPennypacker, Sara
Summary: With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction Pennypacker 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PENPennypacker, Sara
Summary: With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to do her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PENParker, Robert B.
Summary: Elizabeth Shaw of the Boston law firm Shaw & Cartwright hires sleuthing extraordinaire Spenser to investigate Gary Eisenhower. Notorious for his affairs with wealthy married women, Gary is now being accused of blackmailing his former lovers. Spenser's investigation quickly shifts from blackmail to murder, though, when the blackmailed women turn up murdered one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Summary: Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter's latest double cross may be his last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Atkins 2017Atkins, Ace
Summary: Boston PI Spenser is approached by firefighter Jack McGee, who's convinced that the apartment blaze that took the lives of five residents and two firefighters was arson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2016Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ATKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ATKWeaver, Brynne
Summary: "When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive -- the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARGardner, Lisa
Summary: Recovering alcoholic Frankie Elkin has devoted her life to searching for lost and forgotten missing persons. Frankie faces resistance from the police and the victim's family in the case of missing Haitian teen, Angelique Badeau. A recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings, Frankie Elkin spends her life doing what no one else will-- searching for missing people the world has stopped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GARLupica, Mike
Summary: Melanie Joan Hall is back in Boston, riding high, refusing to have Sunny and Rosie move out. She has a Netflix series about to start shooting in Boston, based on her wildly popular new series of books for girls. Then it turns out that most of her fortune is gone. And her manager, who was in charge of the money, turns up dead. He's been with her a long time. When Sunny begins to investigate, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LUPLehane, Dennis
Summary: "One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHHoover, Colleen
Summary: "The newest, highly anticipated novel from beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover. Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HOOCopies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HooverLupica, Mike
Summary: The beautiful wife of one of the world's richest men comes to Spenser in the hope that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband's closet. Though he is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concerned - he has recently become secretive, bordering on paranoid, and she wants Spenser to find out why. As Spenser digs into the billionaire's past, he realises that the man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2023
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Summary: "The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Boston, 1976. Daniel Fitzsimmons is just sixteen years old and totally on his own--his parents are long dead, and his beloved brother, Harry, is off at Harvard, the star of the football team. When Harry is murdered, Daniel wrestles not only with inconsolable grief but with strange new powers he never knew he possessed. Powers he's not sure he can control. Detectives William Barkley 'Bark'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARLupica, Mike
Summary: The beautiful wife of one of the world's richest men comes to Spenser hoping that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband's closet. Though he is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concerned, he has recently become secretive, bordering on paranoid, and she wants Spenser to find out why. As Spenser digs into the billionaire's past, he realizes that the man may have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC LUPGardner, Lisa.
Summary: Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you'd find in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes' home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2013
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Summary: A bueatiful young woman's corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak, the unidentified body betrays no secrets--except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GERGardner, Lisa
Summary: "My name is Dr. Adeline Glen. Due to a genetic condition, I can't feel pain. I never have. I never will. The last thing Boston Detective D. D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice crooning in her ear. She is later told she managed to discharge her weapon three times. All she knows is that she is seriously injured, unable to move her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014