Robert B. Parker

In 1974, a revolutionary group holds up a bank, shooting and killing a clerk. Thirty years later, her daughter seeks closure about her mother's death and turns to Spenser for help.

While the women of Paradise, Massachusetts are being threatened by a voyeur, dubbed "The Night Hawk," Police Chief Jesse Stone must also check out reports of lewd conduct by the junior high school principal, Betsy Ingersoll.

Chief of Police Jesse Stone, stressed by a case where a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach, needs something to keep him from spinning out of control; when he meets PI Sunny Randall, he realizes that they have much in common with both their victims and their suspects.

Boston aristocrat Loudon Tripp hires Spenser to investigate his wife's murder, and Spenser soon uncovers high-class scandals and a corpse that might not be dead after all.

Heidi Bradshaw, a gold digger recently separated from her latest husband, recruits Boston P.I. Spenser to be a stand-in husband and protector at her daughter's wedding; when Spenser's nemesis Rugar--the Gray Man--arrives at what should be a joyous occasion, Spenser realizes something is amiss.

It's December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner. He's confronted in his office by a homeless boy named Slide who 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, but it's not a simple case of intimidation; the trail leads to a dangerous drug kingpin, whose hold on the at-risk...

When Susan's ex-husband, Brad, appears after a decades-long absence, nearly broke and the object of a sexual-harassment suit, Spenser reluctantly agrees to help. As he investigates the circumstances surrounding the suit, he discovers that fund-raiser Brad is swimming in very deep water: mobsters, who were using his fund-raising campaigns to launder money, have discovered he was cooking the already cooked books and aren't at all pleased. The deeper...

Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts coast town of Paradise. Makes Macklin sees the island as the ultimate investment opportunity: all he needs to do is invade it, blow the bridge and loot the island. As Macklin plans his crime, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone has his hands full - he faces romantic entanglements in triplicate.