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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATKParker, Robert B.
Summary: When infamous actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of rape and 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: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PARParker, Robert B.
Summary: Parker once again proves he is a force of nature in this mystery where a hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible-- the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARAtkins, Ace.
Summary: "The iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser returns in an outstanding new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots' marquee players-a hard-nosed linebacker 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 slick agent hires...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKLupica, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LUPAtkins, Ace.
Summary: Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise teen-age girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for. When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ATKAtkins, Ace
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. Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Parker, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Atkins, Ace.
Summary: When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie has been left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hit Spenser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP IFC ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Parker, 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 Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParker, Robert B.
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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 PARAtkins, Ace
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 behis last. Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2017Copies 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 Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ATKParker, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M PARAtkins, Ace.
Summary: When boxing trainer and long-time friend Henry Cimoli asks for Spenser's help with a heavy-handed developer who is sending thugs to pressure Henry to sell his beachfront condo, Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, follow a trail to a beautiful woman, a megalomaniac Vegas kingpin, and plans for a sprawling casino in Boston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2013Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ATKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ATKAtkins, Ace
Summary: Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Parker, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Atkins, Ace.
Summary: "What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2015Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ATKAtkins, Ace
Summary: "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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 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 2018Atkins, Ace
Summary: "In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser heads to the City of Angels to meet old friends and new enemies in a baffling missing person case that might shake Tinseltown to its core"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ATKParker, Robert B.
Summary: Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower--and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARAtkins, Ace
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018