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Spenser novels volume 3
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English
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Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport for Spenser.
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Spenser novels volume 6
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English
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When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head.
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Spenser novels volume 5
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English
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Private eye Spenser returns to take on the terrorists who killed his client's wife and daughters in a London bombing, chasing them across Europe to the Montreal Olympics and a devastating climax.
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Spenser novels volume 2
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English
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New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers - Book 2 in the series -
Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away — until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture — an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends...
Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away — until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture — an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends...
6) School days
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Spenser novels volume 33
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English
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Lily Ellsworth—erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish—is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark’s alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared’s being named as a co-conspirator by...
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Spenser novels volume 4
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English
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Private investigator Spenser leaves Boston for summertime Cape Cod where he and his friend Susan Silverman find themselves involved with fools and villains whose concerns are extortion, robbery, and murder.
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Spenser novels volume 36
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English
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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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Spenser novels volume 7
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English
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A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own. With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.
10) Now and then
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Spenser novels volume 35
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English
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When a simple case turns into a treacherous and politically charged investigation, Spenser faces his most difficult challenge yet-keeping his cool while his beloved Susan Silverman is in danger.
11) Cold service
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Spenser novels volume 32
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English
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When Spenser's closet ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting bookie Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul. Hawk, always proud, has never been dependent on anyone. Now he is forced to make connections: to the medical technology that will ensure his physical recovery, and to reinforce the tenuous emotional ties he has to those around him. Spenser quickly learns that...
12) The professional
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Spenser novels volume 37
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English
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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 when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment...
13) Shrink rap
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Boston P.I. Sunny Randall goes on the road to protect a bestselling author-and uncovers a world of dark secrets- in the new novel by the Grand Master. Sunny Randall, the beautiful blond P.I. with a yen for dogs, painting, and her ex-husband, Richie, has won over even the most hard-core of Robert B. Parker's many fans. "The real deal", raved Publishers Weekly. "Parker's most tightly plotted mystery in years", proclaimed Entertainment Weekly of Perish
...14) Double deuce
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Spenser novels volume 19
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English
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When two people are shot outside of a housing project, Spenser and Hawk must battle street gangs and lethal drug dealers in order to track the killer
15) Thin air
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Spenser novels volume 22
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English
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Her name is Lisa St. Claire. Her husband's a cop. Her whereabouts are unknown. Spenser thought he could help a friend find his missing wife. Until he learned the nasty truth about Lisa St. Claire. For starters, it's not her real name...
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Spenser novels volume 34
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English
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Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now she is 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 is lying to him
17) Back story
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Spenser novels volume 30
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English
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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.
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Spenser novels volume 18
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English
Description
Paul Giacomin enlists Spenser's help in localing his mother who has vanished. As they follow her trail, they are faced with a confrontation that may threaten their lives.
19) Widow's walk
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Spenser novels volume 29
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English
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When Mary Smith's husband, 51 year old Nathan Smith is found dead, she becomes the main suspect. To help prove her innocence, she uses Nathan's millions to hire the best, Private Investigator Spenser. If she didn't kill him can Spenser find out who did?
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Series
Spenser novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who would beat her up for a dollar and kill her for five. Now she's disappeared, last seen in the Combat Zone, that side of Boston where nothing's proper, especially the sex for sale. With Hawk, his sidekick, Spenser takes on the whole X-rated industry. From a specialty whorehouse in Providence to stylish Back Bay bordellos, he pits muscle and wit against bullets and brawn until...
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