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....

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....

Thirty-one-year-old Wyatt Earp, assistant city marshal, loads his wife and all they own into a wagon, and goes with two of his brothers and their women to Tombstone, Arizona....

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....

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

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.

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....

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....

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

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....

Young Spenser is tough. No doubt about it. After all, he's being raised by his father and uncles - three of the toughest men in town. He knows how to fight, and he's had to prove it. But his father taught him something far more valuable....

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 Robin Nevins, the son of Hawk's boyhood mentor, is denied at an exclusive university, Hawk asks Spenser to investigate....

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

Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case....

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....

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

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....

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....

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