School Days

School violence is the incendiary topic that fires up this installment of Robert Parker's ever-popular series about Spenser, the Boston P.I. After two gun-toting kids in ski masks kill seven people and wound eight at an elite private school, one of the shooters, Wendell Grant, gives himself up to police, and fingers Jared Clark as the other perpetrator. Jared's grandmother Lily Ellsworth refuses to believe in Jared's guilt, and hires Spenser to find the evidence proving his innocence, setting Spenser against an entire establishment anxious to close the book on the crime.