Robert B. Parker

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....

Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript....

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.

Spenser's girlfriend Susan goes away with another man, Jerry Costigan, the son of a very rich and dangerous criminal....

When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head....

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

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

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

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

Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence....

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....

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....

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....

When the body of a talk-show host is discovered hanging from a tree, police chief Jesse Stone finds himself at the center of a highly public case....

The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority....

Caught in a snowstorm of drugs, passion, and hate, Spenser investigates a cocaine-related murder....

When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way.....

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....

Robert B. Parker takes listeners into the murky big-city underground, where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute....

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...