A crime thriller featuring American private eye Spenser who is called in to investigate the murder of a student. The main suspect is a bad kid who already has a long criminal record.

Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite. Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape Cod sun. The wife has turned up as a hot suspect in a case of murder one...the in-hock hubby has 24 hours before the mob makes him dead...and suddenly Spenser...

When a teenage girl and her baby are gunned down by feuding street gangs, tenants of a Boston housing project hire Hawk and Spenser to protect them and bring the killers to justice.

From the author of NIGHT PASSAGE, a thriller featuring police chief Jesse Stone who contends with a band of criminals when they plan to invade Stiles Island, destroy the bridge that connects it to the Massachusetts mainland, and loot the island.

Spenser is back and embroiled in a deceptively dangerous and multi-layered case: someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and the Boston P.I. travels to Georgia to protect the two-year old destined to become the next Secretariat. When Spenser is approached by Walter Clive, president of the Three Fillies Stables, to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger, he can hardly say no: he's been doing pro bono work for so...

In this crime story, the Boston private eye Spenser is hired to determine whether a reporter was killed by dope dealers or by an irate husband.

The trail of a missing girl leads private eye Spenser into an underworld of vice and violence peopled by pornographers and pimps - the cigarette butts of mankind. And Spenser tackles each hurdle with the laconic, sharp-eyed coolness.

Sunny Randall's latest client is Sarah Markham, a college student who suspects that her mother and father have been lying about the identity of her true birth parents. The case brings Sunny to Chicago and into the pasts of several radio presenters.

A thriller centering on the search for a wealthy Boston woman who leaves her family, and disappears.

Surprised by the murder of a man he met the night before at an AA meeting, Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone follows leads to one of the wealthiest families in town to identify the victim and his mysterious agenda.