Robert B. Parker
3) High profile
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The murder of Walton Weeks, a Rush Limbaughlike political commentator in sleepy Paradise, Mass., drives the action of bestseller Parker's competent whodunit, a sequel of sorts to Blue Screen (2006), which first paired two of the authors' non-Parker series charactersJess Stone, an ex-LAPD detective trying to resurrect his career as Paradise's police chief, and PI Sunny Randallwith predictable romantic results. After a stalker...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. 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...
5) Resolution
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch ends up in Resolution. He takes a job as lookout at Amos Wolfson's Blackfoot Saloon and protector of the ladies who work the backrooms and is a man unafraid to stand up to the enforcer sent from the O'Malley copper mine. Though Hitch makes short work of hired gun Koy Wickman, tensions continue to mount. Hitch is relieved by the arrival of his friend Virgil Cole. When greedy mine owner Eamon...
6) Bad business
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Spenser novels volume 31
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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 more, a murder occurs...
7) Back Story
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Spenser novels volume 30
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In this 30th entry in one of mystery fiction's longest-running and best-loved series, Spenser--the tough yet sensitive Boston private eye with no first name--takes on an unsolved murder nearly three decades old. The client, an actress, is a friend of Paul Giacomin, Spenser's surrogate son (who first appeared in 1981's Early Autumn). Her mother was slain by leftist radicals at a bank holdup in 1974, and now she wants to know who fired the shot. As...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, 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. Convinced that Ashton Prince played a bigger role than just ransom delivery boy, Spenser enters into a daring game of cat-and-mouse with the thieves. But this...
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 3
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The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with friends, when a frightened voice calls out to him from a nearby lake.
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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.
11) Double play
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In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
12) Spare change
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When the Spare Change Killer resurfaces after three decades they call on retired cop, Phil Randall who headed the original investigation and he calls in his daughter Sunny for help. She's sure she has found the killer but has no proof. When the next two victims resemble Sunny her father insists she drop the case, but she wants to create a trap to catch him.
14) Thin air
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Spenser novels volume 22
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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.
15) Cold Service
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Spenser novels volume 32
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"When his closest 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 accept 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...
16) Rough Weather
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Spenser novels volume 36
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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.
17) School days
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Spenser novels volume 33
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IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
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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
18) Small vices
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Spenser novels volume 24
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The bad kid from the 'hood has a long, long record, but did he really murder the white coed from ritzy Pemberton College? His former lawyers believe that he was framed, and they hire Spenser and Hawk to uncover the truth. Plumbing the depths of the seamy side of life, they encounter a no man's land of twisted cops and spoiled rich kids with peculiar private proclivities. When a master assassin's bullet takes Spenser down, he survives the attack but...
19) Potshot
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Spenser novels volume 28
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Boston P.I. Spenser returns 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 of harmony
20) Paper doll
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Spenser novels volume 20
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Hired by Loudon Tripp, an aggreived Boston aristocrat who believes the brutal slaying of his wife to be something more than random violence, Spenser immediately senses that Tripp's picture-perfect version of his family's life is false. The victim's reputation is fat too saintly, while her house is as lived-in as a stage set and her troubled children don't appear to be products of a happy home. So Spenser plunges into a world of grand illusion, peopled...