Robert B Parker
1) Sixkill
Author
Series
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
Spenser novels volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Spenser, a Boston private investigator, agrees to help local lawyer Elizabeth Shaw track down a man who has been blackmailing and murdering the wives of Elizabeth's wealthy clients, but as the case becomes increasingly complicated, Spenser fears he may be in over his head.
3) Resolution
Author
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 plac
4) Hush money
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 26
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spenser almost gets himself killed trying to help out friends when he agrees to check out the reasons why Robinson Nevins was denied tenure at the university, while also attempting to come to the aid of K. C. Roth, a stalking victim who finds Spenser very much to her liking.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Police Chief Jesse Stone is shocked when Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, an Apache hit man who escaped Stone's grasp ten years ago, arrives in his office warning Jesse to stay out of his way as he searches for a missing woman whose father wants her back and is willing to risk anything to help her escape from the violent gang she's involved with.
6) Back story
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 30
Language
English
Description
Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Former Los Angeles police officer Jesse Stone, fired for drinking on the job, has taken a position as Chief of Police in Paradise, Massachusetts, but he learns that big city crime can happen even in the most bucolic of towns when the body of a young woman washes up on the shore of a local lake.
10) Spare change
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall teams up with her father to solve a thirty-year-old case involving a serial killer who has come out of hiding three decades after claiming his last victim.
11) Blue screen
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sunny Randall is hired by rich producer Buddy Bollen to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint, when Erin's sister and personal trainer end up dead, and Sunny joins forces with Paradise, MA chief Jesse Stone to solve the case.
13) Perish twice
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) Appaloosa
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 13
Publisher
Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Spenser searches for a prostitute who has disappeared while working for the man she loves, and finds himself in the world of high-class prostitutes and their wealthy clients.
17) Blue-eyed devil
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Refusing recruitment by ambitious new chief Amos Callico, itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch protect local merchants whom the chief is harassing for protection money, a situation that escalates to the shooting of a politically connected landowner's son.
18) Family honor
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
19) Shrink rap
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall goes on the road to protect a bestselling author, and along the way she uncovers a surprising world of dark secrets.