Robert B. Parker

Police Chief Jesse Stone has a problem—actually, several problems: dead bodies keep turning up.

When Spenser is approached by Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger, he can hardly say no...

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....

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....

When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears....

Boston P.I. Spenser returns - heading west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires...

Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life....

Police chief Jesse Stone has received his share of unusual calls, but none can top the one from the local junior high school. When reports of lewd conduct by the school’s principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station, Jesse is faced with a particularly delicate situation. Jesse, of...

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

“Robert B. Parker is that rarity–a prolific author whose books are consistently original, suspenseful and fascinating. His crackling dialogue is always fresh and smart-alecky. You’re happily hooked before you know it.”-Forbes Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected–and...

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. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very...

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....

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

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

TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps snooping....

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....

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....

Spenser smells corruption in a college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash....

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