Robert B. Parker

When a shy high-school student's body is found washed up on the shore of a quiet beach town - an apparent suicide - 15-year-old Terry Novak doesn't know what to think....

When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband Trent is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for....

When Robin Nevins, the son of Hawk's boyhood mentor, is denied at an exclusive university, Hawk asks Spenser to investigate. It seems the denial is tied to the suicide....

Police chief Jesse Stone has received his share of unusual calls, but none can top the one from the local junior high school....

A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back....

Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts...

The Sternwood family, immortalized in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, is in trouble again....

Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them....

Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head....

Hired by an aggrieved Boston aristocrat who believes his wife's brutal slaying to be something other than random violence, Spenser immediately senses that his client's picture-perfect portrayal of his family life is false....

When it comes to writing, Robert B. Parker knows no boundaries....

Robert B. Parker gives his fans the book he always longed to write—a brilliant and evocative novel set against the hard scrabble frontier life of the West, featuring Wyatt Earp.

"Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and 12 policemen....

Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives....

It is 1947 when Joseph Burke, ex-Marine, ex-husband, ex-somebody–is hired as a bodyguard to protect Lauren Roach, 25 and spoiled rotten....

When Spenser's closet ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting booking Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul.

A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him....

Boston's premier P.I. investigates the murder of a prominent local banker, with family ties to the Mayflower - and perhaps the mob...

Sunny Randall is a Boston P.I. and former cop, a college graduate, an aspiring painter, a divorcée, and the owner of a miniature bull terrier named Rosie....

The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts....