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1) Sixkill
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 39
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.
2) School days
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 38
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.
4) Resolution
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) Shrink rap
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Phoenix Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
Boston private detective Sunny Randall agrees to protect a touring writer from her abusive ex-husband, but she quickly learns that the stalker in question is much more sophisticated, intelligent, and potentially deadly than most.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 34
Language
English
Description
April Kyle, the head of an upscale Boston call-girl operation, requests private investigator Spenser's help in preventing a local kingpin from seizing control of her enterprise.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 32
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his friend, Hawk, is brutally injured after helping protect another man, Boston private detective Spenser throws himself into Hawk's rehabilitation and investigates the Ukrainian mob he believes is responsible for the attack.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 26
Publisher
Phoenix Audio
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Popular Boston private investigator Spenser and his sidekick Hawk investigate untoward doings at a venerable university that involve politics, sex, and race and develop into a vast racial conspiracy, even as Spenser copes with stalkers and a love problem.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the winter of 1879, and Dodge City has lost its snap. Thirty-one-year-old Wyatt Earp, assistant city marshal, loads his wife and all they own into a wagon, and goes with two of his brothers and their women to Tombstone, Arizona, land of the silver mines. There Earp becomes deputy sheriff, meeting up with the likes of Doc Holliday, Clay Allison, and Bat Masterson and encountering the love of his life, showgirl Josie Marcus. While navigating the...
11) Double play
Author
Language
English
Description
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) High profile
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Struggling with a high-profile case involving the murders of a controversial talk-show host and a young woman, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone becomes increasingly frustrated by the lack of interest on the part of the victims' families.
13) Blue-eyed devil
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Appaloosa police chief Amos Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch.
14) Widow's walk
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 29
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
℗2002
Language
English
Description
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?
15) The professional
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 37
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 & 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...
16) Hugger mugger
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio/Random House
Pub. Date
℗2000
Language
English
Description
Spenser investigates the threatening attacks of a horse named Hugger Mugger, the case takes a deadly turn when the attacker claims a human victim. Disregarding the resentment of The Three Fillies Stables, the local law, the security firm, Spenser finds himself revising his take on the whole Three Fillies organization-and watch his own back as well.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 20
Publisher
Phoenix Audio
Pub. Date
℗2005, ©1993
Language
English
Description
Hired by Loudon Tripp, an aggrieved Boston aristocrat who believes his late wife Olivia's brutal street slaying to be something other than random violence, Spenser suspects that Tripp's picture-perfect version of his family's life is false.
18) Double deuce
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
19) Thin air
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
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