Michael Prichard
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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. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture: an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends ... friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking except with his fists....
6) Early autumn
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When a woman asks Spenser to rescue her 15-year-old son from the hoods her ex-husband had hired, Spenser spirits the boy to the backwoods of Maine to teach him the art of survival, as learned in Boston's backstreets and Korea.
7) Crimson joy
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A husband murders his wife, imitating the "Red Rose Killer," but when he is caught, Spenser's friends in homicide enlist him and Hawk in an unofficial investigation that seems to implicate some of Susan's patients.
8) Stardust
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Susan, acting as a consultant to a TV film crew shooting locally, persuades Spenser and Hawk to guard the show's star, and soon they are investigating the murder of the woman's stand-in.
9) Playmates
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Spenser investigates rumored cheating by Taft University's star basketball team.