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Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
“Ebullient entertainment.”—Time
A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.
Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?
Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.
Praise for Robert B. Parker's...
A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.
Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?
Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.
Praise for Robert B. Parker's...
42) Back Story
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Renaissance man Spenser - he of the acerbic social commentary, the gourmet cookery, and the steely abs - turns his considerable talents to the unraveling of a thirty-year-old murder mystery. During a 1974 holdup in a Boston bank by a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade, Emily Gordon, a visitor cashing traveler's checks, is shot and killed. Despite security-camera photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, nobody...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A high-class New York madam hires Spenser to find a missing hooker, But when Spenser tracks down April Kyle, he uncovers the murder of yet another prostitute. Now Spenser is searching through a world of sex for sale. Because somewhere between Boston and a kinky Caribbean club, someone has a taste for young women, big money, and murder. . . .
Praise for Taming a Seahorse
“Irresistible!”—The Bergen Record
“A...
Praise for Taming a Seahorse
“Irresistible!”—The Bergen Record
“A...
44) Crimson Joy
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give.
Spenser plays against time while he tracks the Red Rose killer from Boston's Combat Zone to the suburbs. His trap is both daring and brave, and gives the story a satisfying climax.
Spenser plays against time while he tracks the Red Rose killer from Boston's Combat Zone to the suburbs. His trap is both daring and brave, and gives the story a satisfying climax.
45) Widow's Walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Four Cassettes, 6 hrs. unabridged
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Boston's premier P.I investigates the murder of a prominent local banker, with family ties to the Mayflower - and perhaps the mob.
When fifty-one year old Nathan Smith, a confirmed bachelor, is found dead in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38 caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty. But given...
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Boston's premier P.I investigates the murder of a prominent local banker, with family ties to the Mayflower - and perhaps the mob.
When fifty-one year old Nathan Smith, a confirmed bachelor, is found dead in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38 caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty. But given...
46) Playmates
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Spenser smells corruption in a college town. Taft University’s hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. All manner of sleaze—from corrupt academics to hoods with graduate degrees—have their fingers in the pot.
Spenser’s search takes him from lecture halls to blue collar bars and finally into a bloody confrontation with almost certain death. But Spenser must save an arrogant young athlete—even...
Spenser’s search takes him from lecture halls to blue collar bars and finally into a bloody confrontation with almost certain death. But Spenser must save an arrogant young athlete—even...
47) Hugger Mugger
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Spenser is back and embroiled in a dangerous and multi-layered case. Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, hires him to find out who. Spenser goes to Georgia to protect Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, he takes the case. Despite the veneer of civility, Spenser encounters...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs—a problem someone has managed to put on videotape.
The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's bandwagon.
But getting back the tape of...
The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's bandwagon.
But getting back the tape of...
49) Potshot
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Boston P.I. Spenser heads west 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When a coed falls prey to a sadistic murderer, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin "Caity" Cassidy and Special Agent Atticus Spenser are called in to testify-one for the defense, one for the prosecution. With warring approaches to justice, these two rivals have been butting heads for years-both inside the courtroom and out. And at first, this case appears to be no different. But when a brutal attack leaves the accused man dead and Caity in critical...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A body just fell from the sky onto Hollywood Boulevard. When a beautiful prostitute is dumped onto the Walk of Fame, FBI profiler Atticus Spenser and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy are called in to solve one of their most baffling cases yet. The media's dubbed him the Fallen Angel Killer-a crazed murderer who's leaving the bodies of high-priced call girls in Los Angeles tourist traps. The killer has raised the stakes, demanding that a mysterious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Dallas socialite Cynthia Langhorne is infamous for her beauty, her philanthropy, and her home wrecking-until she's found shot through the heart and posed nude at a fundraising ball. The case is high profile, and there's a bigger problem: Cindy is the wife of a decorated FBI special agent-the prime suspect in her murder. When the Bureau sends FBI profiler Atticus Spenser and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy to Texas on behalf of Dutch Langhorne,...
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