Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010 
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1. Back story
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Spenser novels volume 30.
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5 stars
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Thirty years after an unsolved bank robbery leaves a woman dead, Paul Giacomin, whom Spenser regards like a son, and Daryl Gordon, the son of the robbery victim, turn to Spenser to seek out clues about the crime.
2. Bad business
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Spenser novels volume 31.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Hired by a jilted bride to track her cheating husband, Spenser's investigation takes an unexpected turn when he crosses paths with another detective assigned to follow the unfaithful wife. They aren't the most trusting couple in town, but as it turns out, they are the most dangerous. As they dig deeper into the case, they uncover shocking secrets that threaten to unravel everything.
3. Blue screen
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Sunny Randall mysteries volume 5.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Sunny Randall is hired to protect rising star Erin Flint, and Sunny learns from the start that the prickly, spoiled beauty won't make her job easy. When Erin's sister, Misty, is found dead in the lavish home they share with sugar daddy Buddy Bollen, there doesn't seem to be a single lead. But then Sunny meets Jesse Stone, chief of police in Paradise, Massachusetts, and while searching for the killer, they learn alot about each other - and themselves....
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Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When Appaloosa police chief Amos Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch.
5. Brimstone
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Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 3.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The guns-for-hire introduced in Robert B. Parker's Appaloosa are back... When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch track down the woman who stole Virgil's heart, they find a dispirited prostitute rather than the innocent beauty she once was. Now they must save her, even if murder is the price of redemption.
6. Chance
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Spenser novels volume 23.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Spenser and his sidekick, Hawk, become entangled in the affairs of the Mafia and in an internecine struggle for control of the Boston underworld when they set out to find the errant spouse of the daughter of big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura
7. Cold service
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Spenser novels volume 32.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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When his closest ally, Hawk, is beaten and left for dead while protecting a bookie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his best pal, body and soul. But that means infiltrating a ruthless mob--and redefining his friendship with Hawk in the name of vengeance...
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 3.
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4.8 stars
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The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his teammates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late-summer twilight. But then a frightened voice calls out to him from the edge of a nearby lake. There, two men squat at the water's edge. In front of them, facedown, was something that used to be a girl. The local cops haven't seen anything...
9. Double play
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4 stars
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1947: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier--and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Joseph Burke, veteran of World War II and Robinson's bodyguard--because under the media spotlight, hard truths are easier than ever to see, and harder to escape. And some can prove fatal.
10. Family honor
11. High profile
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 6
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Struggling with a high-profile case involving the murders of a controversial talk-show host and a young woman, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone becomes increasingly frustrated by the lack of interest on the part of the victims' families.
12. Melancholy baby
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Sunny Randall mysteries volume 4.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When her ex-husband remarries, Sunny Randall takes a college student's case, if only as a distraction from her personal life. But in helping the girl find her birth parents, life and work converge in a dangerous way.
13. Night and day
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 8.
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4.7 stars
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When the sun sets in Paradise, the women get nervous. A Peeping Tom is on the loose. According to the notes he sends Police Chief Jesse Stone, he's about to take his obsession one step further.
14. Night passage
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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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.
15. Now and then
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Spenser novels volume 35.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Investigating a new client's unfaithful wife, Boston private eye Spenser finds himself in trouble when the case goes terribly wrong and three people wind up dead, a situation that reveals the wife's lover's ties to a terrorist organization.
16. Painted ladies
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Spenser novels volume 38.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
17. Perish twice
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Sunny Randall mysteries volume 2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Boston private investigator Sunny Randall comes to the aid of three women as she investigates threats against a prominent feminist and assists her best friend and older sister, each of whom is confronting a wrenching personal struggle.
18. Resolution
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Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 2.
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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.
19. Rough weather
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Spenser novels volume 36.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Hired as a bodyguard at an exclusive wedding, Spenser witnesses an unexpected crime: the kidnapping of the young bride, which opens the door for murder, family secrets, and the reappearance of an old nemesis.
20. School days
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Spenser novels volume 33.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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When a Massachusetts boy is accused of mass murder, his socially prominent grandmother is convinced of his innocence and is willing to fight for him. But based on the boy's resigned attitude and the evidence stacked against him, Spenser isn't convinced of anything--except that there's trouble ahead...