Robert B Parker
22) Perish twice
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall is forced onto dangerous ground, both physically and emotionally, when she is hired to protect a prominent feminist whose life is being threatened, while her older sister and her best friend both demand her help with their rocky marriages.
23) Small vices
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 24
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
When a street kid with a rap sheet full of petty larcenies is convicted for the murder of a wealthy co-ed, Spenser delves into the bizarre world of the ultra-rich to prove his innocence.
25) Thin air
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 22
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman is kidnaped, leaving PI Spenser of Boston to probe the mysteries of her past. She is Lisa St. Claire, disk jockey and wife of a Boston policeman, a woman with a history of drugs and prostitution. The abductor turns out to be a former Latino lover.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 11
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
When a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no threat of death can make Spenser cut and run.
33) Pastime
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 18
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Emotionally scarred Paul Giacomin begs Spenser, a tough-guy private eye, to help rescue his mother, and the request sets Spenser off on an emotional and dangerous journey.
35) Double deuce
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 19
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Hawk has been hired by the residents of Double Deuce, a Boston housing project, to help find the killer of a young mother and her infant daughter. As Hawk confronts gang leader Major Johnson, a replica of himself as a teenager, he learns that this was no random killing, but premeditated murder. Spenser, meanwhile, struggles with giving up his independence and moving in with Susan.
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe volume 10
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
When a sinister doctor pairs up with a sex-crazed eccentric to kidnap the psychotic Carol Sternwood, Marlowe's investigation leads him ever deeper into a decadent southern Californian underworld.
38) Appaloosa
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Arriving in a small nineteenth-century western town where the sheriff has been killed and the residents are at the mercy of a renegade rancher, lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch face an adversary who works by playing psychological games.