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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 1
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Fired from Los Angeles for drinking, Jesse Stone lands a job as police chief in a Massachusetts town whose leaders want a pushover. When a white supremacist militiaman tries murder, Stone surprises them.
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"Apple Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is very wrong. When fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears, everyone thinks he's run away--until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Boston PI Spenser long to get the picture: an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends like bodybuilder Vic Harroway. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking--except with his...
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Spenser novels volume 4
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The Boston PI gets tangled in Cape Cod’s criminal underworld in this Edgar Award–winning mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author.
Cape Cod businessman Harvey Shepard is in over his head. He lost a quarter million on a shady real estate deal, the loan shark is circling, and now he needs a private investigator to find out where his wife, Pam, disappeared to. Spencer takes the case, but finding...
Cape Cod businessman Harvey Shepard is in over his head. He lost a quarter million on a shady real estate deal, the loan shark is circling, and now he needs a private investigator to find out where his wife, Pam, disappeared to. Spencer takes the case, but finding...
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Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now she is a madam of an up-scale, all-female operation that some men are trying to take away from her. April claims she doesn't know who is after her business, but Spenser finds ties to organized crime. Spenser without much surprise also finds that April, the thugs and everyone else involved is lying to him.
5) School days
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Spenser novels volume 33
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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.
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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...
9) Cold service
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Spenser novels volume 32
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Boston P.I. Spenser and his redoubtable sidekick, Hawk, seek revenge on a cold-blooded killer.
10) Walking Shadow
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Spenser novels volume 21
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PI Spenser of Boston investigates a stalking, the victim of which is a theatre company director, a probe that leaves him cold until an actor is gunned down. At that he swings into action, clashing with the Chinese Mafia and narrowly missing being killed himself.
11) Night and day
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Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone must deal in his own laconic way with the town's rights and wrongs, including a Peeping Tom, the Paradise Free Swingers, and a firestorm of protests at the junior high school.
13) Thin air
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Spenser novels volume 22
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Her name is Lisa St. Claire. Her husband's a cop. Her whereabouts are unknown. Spenser thought he could help a friend find his missing wife. Until he learned the nasty truth about Lisa St. Claire.
14) Split Image
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What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.
15) Stardust
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Spenser novels volume 17
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English
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When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way. First, there's Jill herself. She's spoiled, arrogant, drugged out -- made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her -- does she imagine it, or is it real? Spenser monitors her neurosis, but finds evidence of harassment. It escalates to murder. Now begins the dangerous part -- while...
17) Double deuce
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Spenser novels volume 19
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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When Spenser's cohort, Hawk, is hired by the tenants of a rundown block known as Double Deuce, Spenser is roped in to help. But before they can start the clean-up, Spenser must take on a feared band of teenage urban warriors.
19) Resolution
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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.
20) Sea change
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When the body of a divorced Florida heiress washes ashore in Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone learns of the woman's past appearances in an erotic video and finds it suspicious that the victim's family seems unaffected by her death.