Robert B. Parker
22) The professional
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 37
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
289 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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...
23) Stone cold
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A mysterious couple is carefully choosing victims, stalking them, and nailing them with two simultaneous shots. As Jesse desperately tries to find some connection between the victims, he hopes the link will help him identify the killers. A heavy drinker, still in love with his ex-wife, Jesse is fighting personal demons, but now he is under increasingly intense pressure. As the death count rises, town officials want Jesse to stop the serial murders...
25) Sudden mischief
Author
Series
Spenser Novel volume 25
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 24 cm.
32) Family honor
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy involving state government.
33) Walking shadow
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 21
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Spenser is investigating the Port City Theater Company, where the director claims he is being stalked. When an actor is shot dead during a performance, all clues lead to the local Chinese mafia whose roots run deep in this drab waterfront city. With Hawk and ex-mobster Vinnie assisting, Spenser eventually triumphs in one of his most compelling adventures.
34) School days
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 33
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 24 cm.
37) Hush money
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 26
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 24 cm.
38) Appaloosa
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 24 cm.
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...
40) Resolution
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
292 p. ; [325 p. Large Print] ; 24 cm.
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.