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Spenser novels volume 12
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Spenser and Hawk, in an uneasy undercover alliance with federal law-enforcement agents, search for Susan Silverman, who is somehow involved with the son of a man the government wants dead.
2) Ceremony
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Spenser novels volume 9
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Boston private eye Spenser's search for a missing high-school girl takes him to Boston's Combat Zone, to high-class, specialty brothels, and back to the straight world whose righteous facade overlap pervasive corruption.
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Spenser novels volume 10
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Spenser is hired by Senate candidate Meade Alexander after he is blackmailed by the mob. Spenser must get back a tape of Alexander's wife that is x-rated.
4) Small vices
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Spenser novels volume 24
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Ellis Alves is no angel. But his lawyer says he was framed for the murder of college student Melissa Henderson and asks Spenser for help. From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects, including Melissa's rich-kid, tennis star boyfriend. But when a man with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, the hope for justice may die with him.
5) Sixkill
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Spenser novels volume 39
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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.
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Spenser novels volume 2
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After a fourteen-year-old boy from an affluent family disappears, Spenser begins to investigate and discovers a link between the missing boy and Vic Halloway, a bodybuilder with a vicious reputation.
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Spenser novels volume 3
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Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past ... or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16. America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very...
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Spenser novels volume 1
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When the local university hired Spenser to recover a stolen manuscript, his only clue was a radical student with four bullets in his chest.
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Spenser novels volume 6
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When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head.
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Spenser novels volume 14
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Spenser is called in to investigate the murder of a reporter working on a story about the cocaine trade. Threats by the local police and a Columbian produce dealer lead Spenser to dig deeper.
11) Crimson joy
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Spenser novels volume 15
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Spenser is back on his home turf: a Boston of sleaze and surprises, dangerous days and deadly nights. A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't ctch him. called the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves a long-stemmed red rose on each woman he slays, he's terrifying every female who has to go out after dark. But once Spenser joins the chase, the murder's trail turns toward home when a rose is left for Spenser's own Susan Silverman....
12) 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.
13) The Judas goat
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Spenser novels volume 5
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Private eye Spenser returns to take on the terrorists who killed his client's wife and daughters in a London bombing, chasing them across Europe to the Montreal Olympics and a devastating climax.
14) Potshot
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Spenser novels volume 28
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P.I. Spenser heads to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires. This western idyll is being threatened by a local gang of desert rats, misfits, drunks and scavengers the police seem powerless to corral. Led by a charismatic individual known as The Preacher, this motley band of thieves selectively exploits the town, nurturing it as a source of wealth while systematically robbing...
15) Now and then
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Spenser novels volume 35
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Spenser, a P.I., is asked to keep tabs on Dennis Doherty's wife and catches her with another man. A couple of days later, three people are dead. The other man turns out to be Perry Alderson, the leader of a group that sponsors terrorists. Since Alderson doesn't want Spenser poking around in his business, he tries to get to Spenser through Spenser's girlfriend Susan.
16) Thin air
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Spenser novels volume 22
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When Lisa St. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective vanishes mysteriously, Spenser joins the search for the missing woman, following a dangerous trail that leads him to a sociopathic Latino ex-lover and into a deadly confrontation with Lisa's dark past.
17) Pastime
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Spenser novels volume 18
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Ten years ago, Paul Giacomin's corrupt father and loose mother used the boys as a pawn in their violent race: only Spenser could call them off and straighten out the misled teen-almost getting killed in the process. Paul is now twenty-four and reconciled to his mother's wanton ways. But when Patty Giacomin vanishes, Paul begs Spenser to help him rescue her from the clutches of her boyfriend, a shady character he's sure coerced his mother into running....
18) Stardust
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Spenser novels volume 17
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Hired to protect Jill Joyce, the beautiful star of a prime-time television hit, Spenser must keep himself from falling for the young woman while he keeps her dangerous stalker at bay.
19) Paper doll
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Spenser novels volume 20
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When Boston aristocrat Loudon Tripp hires Spenser to investigate his wife's murder, Spenser uncovers high-class scandals and a corpse that might not be dead after all.
20) Hush money
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Spenser novels volume 26
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PI Spenser investigates charges of discrimination made by a black professor who was denied tenure at a New England university. The professor claims there was a conspiracy to brand him as a homosexual. By the author The Godwulf Manuscript.
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