Spenser novel

THe Godwulf manuscript. For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder. The first book in the Spenser series. God save the child. Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old...

Marty Rabb was the Boston Red Sox star pitcher. Linda Rabb loved her husband, her baby, her beautiful home, and the adulation of the fans. She loved everything about her life -- except the blackmailer who was trying to wreck it. Spenser is hired to find out if Marty was throwing fastballs or thowing games. It didn't take long to find a link between Marty's performance and Linda's past ... or for Spenser to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer...

Spenser has gone to London to track down, dead or alive, a bunch of bombers who've killed his client's wife and kids. But there are nine killers to one Spenser.

Spenser is hired to protect a lesbian, feminist activist, the eponymous Rachel Wallace. Spenser defends her more vigorously than she would like and she fires him. Shortly afterwards, she is kidnapped and the police have almost nothing to go on. Though no longer officially employed to protect her, Spenser feels duty-bound to find her because he could have protected her if he had followed her orders and held onto the job. His investigation leads him...

Spenser is in Hollywood to protect television reporter Candy Sloan, and together they search for a murderer.

Spenser becomes security chief for a U.S. Senate candidate and must find the blackmailer who wants the candidate out of the race.

In the detective business, Spenser sometimes has to bend the law. Other times, to break it. But he lives by his own inviolate rules. And he loves just one woman -- even though she is the one woman he's just lost. So when Susan's desperate letter arrives, Spenser doesn't think twice. His best friend, Hawk, faces a life sentence. And Susan has gotten herself into even bigger trouble. Now Spenser has to free them both ... even if it means breaking his...

Spenser is called in to investigate the murder of a reporter working on a story about the cocaine trade. Threats by the local police and a Columbian produce dealer lead Spenser to dig deeper.

Spenser, a hard-boiled Boston private eye, investigates when the leading college basketball forward appears to be shaving points.