Robert B. Parker
1) Resolution
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
2) Sixkill
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
5) Sea change
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone faces the case of his career in the newest novel in the bestselling series.When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be an emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced...
6) High profile
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The murder of a notorious public figure places Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone in the harsh glare of the media spotlight.When the body of controversial talk-show host Walton Weeks is discovered hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone finds himself at the center of a highly public case, forcing him to deal with small-minded local officials and national media scrutiny. When another dead body-that...
7) Split image
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Overwhelmed by a double homicide involving a mob hit, a high-ranking crime figure and twin mafia wives, Jesse Stone increasingly succumbs to alcoholism before agreeing to assist fellow investigator Sunny Randall on a seemingly unrelated case.
8) Now and then
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Spenser knows something’s amiss the moment Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guy’s aggressive yet wary, in the way men frightened for their marriages always are. So when Doherty asks Spenser to investigate his wife Jordan’s abnormal behavior, Spenser agrees. A job’s a job, after all.
Not surprisingly, Spenser catches Jordan with another man, tells Dennis what he’s found out, and considers the case closed. But...
Not surprisingly, Spenser catches Jordan with another man, tells Dennis what he’s found out, and considers the case closed. But...
9) Spare change
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Hi, Phil,
You miss me? I got bored, so I thought I’d reestablish our relationship.
Give us both something to do in our later years. Stay tuned.
Spare Change
When a serial murderer dubbed “The Spare Change Killer” by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out the cop, now retired, who headed the original task force: Phil Randall. As a sharp-eyed investigator and...
You miss me? I got bored, so I thought I’d reestablish our relationship.
Give us both something to do in our later years. Stay tuned.
Spare Change
When a serial murderer dubbed “The Spare Change Killer” by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out the cop, now retired, who headed the original task force: Phil Randall. As a sharp-eyed investigator and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The last time Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, the Apache Indian hit man was racing away in a speedboat after executing one of the most lucrative and deadly heists in the town's history. Crow was part of a team of ex-cons who plotted to capture Stiles Island, the wealthy enclave off the Paradise coast, by blowing up the connecting bridge. Residents were kidnapped, some were killed, and Crow managed...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
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.
12) School days
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Boston P.I. Spenser returns, in the latest from bestselling author Robert Parker, to take on a ruthless local gang in the millionaire's paradise of Potshot, Arizona. Spenser heads west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, to defend the town and its transplanted Los Angeles yuppie residents from a 21st-century posse of desert rats, misfits, drunks and scavengers who are robbing the town blind and threatening residents' newly-discovered sense...
14) Cold service
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When Spenser's closet ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting booking 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...
Spenser quickly learns...
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
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.
16) The professional
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw and Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. 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 . Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment goes from blackmail to murder....
17) Widow's walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Four Cassettes, 6 hrs. unabridged
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Boston's premier P.I investigates the murder of a prominent local banker, with family ties to the Mayflower - and perhaps the mob.
When fifty-one year old Nathan Smith, a confirmed bachelor, is found dead in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38 caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty. But given...
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Boston's premier P.I investigates the murder of a prominent local banker, with family ties to the Mayflower - and perhaps the mob.
When fifty-one year old Nathan Smith, a confirmed bachelor, is found dead in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38 caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty. But given...
18) Back story
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Renaissance man Spenser - he of the acerbic social commentary, the gourmet cookery, and the steely abs - turns his considerable talents to the unraveling of a thirty-year-old murder mystery. During a 1974 holdup in a Boston bank by a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade, Emily Gordon, a visitor cashing traveler's checks, is shot and killed. Despite security-camera photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, nobody...
19) Bad business
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Hired by Marlene Cowley to find out whether her husband Trent is cheating on her, Spenser soon realizes that the two-timing husband has hired an investigator of his own. Even more shocking for Spenser is the discovery that the Cowleys are a part of an intimate circle that regularly tunes in to the talk-show host Darin O’Mara’s unconventional—and possibly deadly—views on cross-connubial relationships. To complicate matters even...
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Chief of Police Jesse Stone returns to investigate the murder of a troubled teenager in a seemingly bucolic New England town. The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his team-mates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late summer twilight. But then a voice, scared, calls out to him from the edge of a nearby lake. He walks to the sound,...