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1) Potshot
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Boston private detective Spenser and his cohorts head west to Potshot, Arizona, a haven for California millionaires seeking an escape from their high-pressure lives, when the idyllic retreat is threatened by a vicious local gang.
2) Widow's walk
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When Nathan Smith, a prominent local banker and millionaire, is murdered, Spenser is called in to investigate Nathan's young wife, Mary, and as the evidence stacks up against her, Spenser discovers that Mary's mysterious past has put his own life in danger.
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Reluctantly escorting the gold-digging and recently separated Heidi Bradshaw to her daughter's wedding, Boston private investigator Spenser hopes to reconnect with his beloved Susan at the wedding, but becomes enmeshed in a kidnapping plot involving his nemesis Rugar.
5) School days
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Lily Ellsworth, the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting. 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.
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Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now she is a madam of an up-scale, all-female operation that some men are trying to take away from her. April claims she doesn't know who is after her business, but Spenser finds ties to organized crime. Spenser without much surprise also finds that April, the thugs and everyone else involved is lying to him.
7) Playmates
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Spenser investigates rumored cheating by Taft University's star basketball team.
10) Sudden mischief
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Susan asks Spenser to investigate charges of sexual harrassment leveled against her ex-husband, Brad Sterling, and Spenser discovers clues that suggest Sterling's charitable work has been a front for criminal activities.
11) Double deuce
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At the behest of his pal Hawk, Spenser defends the residents of a gang-terrorized Boston housing project known as Double Deuce.
12) 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.
13) Thin air
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A radio deejay newly married to a Boston police detective is kidnapped and imprisoned in the barrio of a depressed Massachusetts factory town, and Spenser is asked to investigate.
14) 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.
15) Paper doll
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Spenser is hired by Loudon Tripp to find the murderer of his conventionally impeccable wife, whom the police consider to be a victim of random urban violence.
18) 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.
19) Hush money
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PI Spenser investigates charges of discrimination made by a black professor who was denied tenure at a New England university. The professor claims there was a conspiracy to brand him as a homosexual. By the author The Godwulf Manuscript.
20) Silent night
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2013.
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It's December in Boston, and Spenser, busy preparing his menu for Christmas dinner, has a confrontation with a young homeless boy whose predicament becomes the famous PI's newest case.
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