Robert B Parker: 120 books

"The new series by the creator of the hugely successful Spenser books has a great deal going for it: an empathetic, painfully flawed protagonist; an atmospheric small-town setting rife with corruption; and a whole new set of fascinating secondary characters" (Booklist). Don't miss the first five novels...

“Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald,” The Boston Globe once wrote. But over the course of a legendary literary career, Parker single-handedly reinvented American detective fiction for the modern world with his irreverent, idealistic...

From "the reigning champion of the American tough-guy detective novel" (Entertainment Weekly), four novels featuring Jesse Stone, ex-LAPD, now the police chief in Paradise, Massachusetts. Don't miss these mysteries from the New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series. Includes: High Profile Stranger in Paradise Night and Day Split Image

Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller! "The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and...

Four outstanding novels set in the Old West, featuring the "smart and resourceful"* gun-slinging duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch--from the New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser, Jesse Stone, and Sunny Randall novels. (*Publishers Weekly) Includes: Appaloosa Resolution Brimstone Blue-Eyed Devil

"In some ways, Sunny is a female Spenser. Like him, she's a former cop, now a Boston PI, quick with a pistol and a quip...promises to be a series for the ages."* These six novels feature the New York Times bestselling author's first female protagonist--Sunny Randall, "the real deal"...

**A special gift for the holiday season—a rumination on Christmas as conceived by Robert B. Parker. “Brann does a seamless job…Diehard Parker fans will be delighted.” —Publishers Weekly** It’s December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner...

“[Parker's found] the pitch-perfect voice for a guy who is straining every muscle to cut down on the booze, hang on to his new job as police chief, and not get rattled by the body of a teenage girl”(The New York Times) in this bestselling mystery in the Jesse Stone series. Robert B. Parker...

Boston PI Spenser investigates the perfect murder in this New York Times bestselling mystery in Robert B. Parker’s acclaimed series. She was a model wife and mother, bludgeoned with a hammer on the streets of Beacon Hill. Spenser's searching for a motive and a murderer—and finding more...

“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...

Der Bankier Nathan Smith wird eines Abends tot in seinem Bett aufgefunden. Von der Tatwaffe fehlt jede Spur und alles spricht dafür, dass seine junge Frau Mary den Finger am Abzug hatte. Dank Nathans Millionen kann sie sich an ein renommiertes Anwaltsbüro wenden. Doch selbst ihre Anwältin zweifelt...

Eine Mordserie hält die US-Kleinstadt Paradise in Atem: ein Jogger am Strand, eine Frau vor einem Einkaufscenter und ein Mann auf offener Straße. Getötet durch zwei Schüsse in die Brust aus kurzer Distanz. Das ist auch schon das Ende der Gemeinsamkeiten. Es gibt keinen Hinweis darauf, dass die...

Dieser Fall geht Polizeichef Jesse Stone an die Nieren. An einem See in der Nähe der US-Kleinstadt Paradise wird die stark verweste Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Niemand scheint sie zu kennen oder zu vermissen. Erst durch einen Ring kann die Identität des Opfers festgestellt werden. Doch der...

Ein Spanner, der sich Nachtfalke nennt, terrorisiert die Bewohnerinnen der beschaulichen Kleinstadt Paradise. Zunächst gibt er sich noch damit zufrieden, die Frauen zu beobachten. Aber im Laufe der Zeit verliert er zunehmend die Kontrolle und wird immer rücksichts­loser. Als er schließlich eine...