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....

The Sternwood family, immortalized in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, is in trouble again. Lovely Vivian's psychotic sister, Carmen, has disappeared from the sanitarium, and Vivian herself has once again fallen into the clutches of the shady underworld character Eddie Mars.

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

A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story...

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....

Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well-connected - and she needs Spenser's help....

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

Spenser's out to make war, not love, as he goes after Boston's entire X-rated industry....

Hired by a wealthy family to locate their teenage daughter, Sunny Randall soon finds herself the bodyguard for a difficult teenager who refuses to return to her family....

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

After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief....

Boston P.I. Sunny Randall goes on the road to protect a best-selling author-and uncovers a world of dark secrets- in the new novel by the grand master....

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

In Stone Cold, Police Chief Jesse Stone has a problem - actually, two problems - dead bodies turning up, and no clues....

When we last saw Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It's now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind....

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....

After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads into the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust has yet to settle....

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....

Brad Sterling - former Harvard football player, ne¿er-do-well, and Susan Silverman's long out-of touch ex-husband, is by all appearances a successful businessman....

It’s December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he’s confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide....