Spenser novels

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Summary: In his first appearance, Spenser is hired to find a 14th century manuscript stolen from a university. The university is convinced that a radical group of anti-capitalism students, led by the striking Terry Orchard and her belligerent boyfriend Dennis Powell, are behind the theft and ransom demand.

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Spenser investigates when the wife of the Boston Red Sox star pitcher is being blackmailed.

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Spenser has gone to London — and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy. But there are nine killers to one Spenser — long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation. The rest depends on a wild plan. Spenser will get one of the terrorists to play Judas Goat — to lead him to others. Trouble is, he hasn't...

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“[Robert B.] Parker's brilliance is in his simple dialogue, and in Spenser.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
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...

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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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Summary: Searching for a young woman who may or may not have been kidnapped, Spenser encounters a church militant and a heroin ring and struggles against his growing estrangement from the women he loves.

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Spenser looks for beautiful, blond April Kyle, a hooker hooked on the wrong guy.

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A serial killer leaves one red rose on the body of each woman he kills. When private eye Spenser joins the effort to stop him, the "Red Rose Killer" targets Spenser's long-time girlfriend, Susan Silverman. Can Spenser stop him before it's too late?

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Summary: Hired to protect Jill Joyce, the beautiful star of a prime-time television hit, Spenser must keep himself from falling for the young woman while he keeps her dangerous stalker at bay.

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Spenser is forced by loyalty into an alien world where violence is a way of life and outsiders enter at a lethal risk. When Spenser's cohort Hawk is hired by the tenants of a gang-plagued Boston housing project know as "Double Deuce," he enlists his friend's aid. A teenage girl and her infant daughter have been gunned down. Though the act at first appears to be an accidental drive-by shooting, it soon becomes clear that it was premeditated murder....

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A murder draws Boston PI Spenser into the dramatic world of theater in this New York Times bestseller in Robert B. Parker’s long-running series. In a shabby waterfront town, an actor is shot dead onstage. Granted, the script left much to be desired. But there's more behind the scenes than an overzealous critic—and Spenser and Hawk are combing Port City’s underworld to find it... “Great fun...[Spenser] is still the cockiest...

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