A trio of best-selling novels featuring the inimitable Boston private detective follows Spenser as he revisits a crime from his past in Pastime, becomes embroiled in a deadly war against a local street gang in Double Deuce, and investigates the murder of a quintessential suburban wife and mother in [...]
Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment.Reprint.[...]
Sunny Randall, "Boston's leading lady gumshoe" ("New York Daily News"), returns as hired bodyguard for the spoiled, and possibly dangerous, prize female client of a sleazy producer. This time, she gets a little help from Parker's popular character Jesse Stone, making a guest appearance here
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April Kyle, a prostitute from Spenser's past, comes back into his life-with deadly complications.
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Investigating a case of infidelity sounds simple--until it plunges Spenser and his beloved Susan into a politically charged murder plot that's already left three people dead.[...]
An Apache hit man arrives in Paradise to find a missing girl and snuff out her mother. But his conscience is getting the best of him. If he doesn't make the hit, he'll pay for it. So might Jesse Stone, who's been enlisted to protect them all.[...]
Features the main characters first introduced in Appaloosa- now a major motion picture from New Line Cinema.
A greedy mine owner threatens the coalition of local ranchers in the town of Resolution, pitching two honorable gunfighters, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, into a make-shift war that'll [...]
Parker and Stone-back with another "New York Times" bestseller
When the sun sets in Paradise, the women get nervous. A Peeping Tom is on the loose. According to the notes he sends Police Chief Jesse Stone, he's about to take his obsession one step further.
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Cole and Hitch are back in a new Western classic...
The guns-for-hire introduced in Robert B. Parker's "Appaloosa" are back...
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch track down the woman who stole Virgil's heart, they find a dispirited prostitute rather than the innocent beauty she once was. N[...]
The wives of Boston's wealthiest men have a mutual secret: they all had an affair with the same cad who's blackmailing them, and Spenser's been hired to stop him. But when the wives start dying one by one, Spenser's new case becomes murder.
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After a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall realize just how much they really have in common with their victims, their suspects-and each other.
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Once, Appaloosa law was Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Now it's Amos Callico, a vindictive, power-hungry tin star with bigger aims-and he could use Cole and Hitch on his side. This time the paid guns aren't for hire, which makes Callico a very vengeful man. But threatening Cole and Hitch ignites som[...]
Spenser had a simple job-protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. No one was supposed to die. But the scholar had secrets no one knew, and uncovering them will endanger Spenser as well.[...]
A bad-boy movie star named Jumbo pushes the limits of his reputation when he's accused of rape and murder. When the Boston PD calls on Spencer, he meets Jumbo's young bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and the two form an unlikely alliance. It's a high profile case for Spenser, but the Hollywood secrets he[...]
It's tourist season in Paradise, Massachusetts. With it comes a baffling and violent crime wave that has residents on edge. It's also brought a mysterious figure who's stirring up troubling memories for Chief of Police Jesse Stone--especially when it appears the stranger is out for revenge.
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When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not convinced by her claim that the wrong man was convicted. Mattie is street-smart, wise beyond her years, and now left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment[...]
One girl is a teenage dose of pretty poison. The other is a movie starlet on the run from a violent past. These two cases collide in Paradise and Jesse Stone is trapped between them.
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A JESSE STONE NOVEL
She was barely out of her teens, not exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks.
Now, defiled and alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. And Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't even know her name. But when his investigation lures hi[...]
Old friends. Small favors. Bitter rivals. Stirred together, it all makes for one explosive cocktail. Spenser can feel the heat stretching from Boston to Vegas--and people are about to get burned.
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked th[...]
True to his practice of exceeding his own standards with each new novel, Atkins gives Robert B. Parker's long-running series one of its best installments to date (Bookreporter.com) with the Spencer novel, "Cheap Shot..."
Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots marquee players a hard-nos[...]
The new Jesse Stone novel in Robert B. Parker's"New York Times" bestselling series and this one is a cause for celebration ("January Magazine").
A reunion with former baseball teammates leaves Jesse Stone grappling with memories and regrets over what might have been, and that includes bitterswee[...]
From the" New York Times" bestselling author of "Robert B. Parker s Ironhorse" and it s everything we love about the Hitch & Cole series. *
An ominous storm is rolling in over Appaloosa, carrying with it a band of night riders who show up at the Rio Blanco camp, where a three-hundred-foot bridg[...]
PI Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar "New York Times" bestselling addition to the iconic series from author Ace Atkins.
What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitte[...]