Carrie Bell has led a remarkably stable existence in her Wisconsin home town: life is good and, perhaps more important, life doesn't change. Then her longtime fiancé is involved in an accident that leaves him paralyzed, and not only Carrie's life but her way of thinking about it changes drastically, and she knows that what she needs is to escape the future that threatens to trap her forever. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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V.I. Warshawski arbitrates in a neighborhood dispute between an old man and a upwardly mobile young couple. But the situation takes a startling turn when the old man's corpse washes up in the river.

When V.I.'s Aunt Elena turns up on her door step breathing breath of fire since her single room occupancy hotel burned down, V.I. knows trouble is close behind.

Tracking an intruder on the grounds of an empty estate, private investigator V. I. Warshawski discovers the body of a journalist in a pond. The crime's motives appear to be rooted in the turbulent days of the McCarthy era, and in two socially prominent Chicago families, who would much rather keep aspects of their past quiet. Naturally, V.I. is prepared to make some noise, although the consequences may prove deadly.

V.I. Warshawski arbitrates in a neighborhood dispute between an old man and a upwardly mobile young couple. But the situation takes a startling turn when the old man's corpse washes up in the river.

Frenna is a slave to a member of the Emirate Extension Service on the planet Naya-Bellea, which is under attack by the Faraqui, who lost control of the planet and the slaves years earlier. During the upheaval, Frenna escapes, only to be recaptured and deposited on another planet to undergo further turmoil.

Spenser investigates an unsolved 1974 murder at the behest of the victim's daughter. A bystander apparently killed in the course of a bank robbery, Emily Gordon was in the wrong place at the wrong time--or was she? When it becomes clear that key evidence has vanished, Spenser begins to wonder if something altogether darker is going on....

Spenser goes in search of one of a young woman he had sent to Patricia Utley in the previous novel "Ceremony." He uncovers a greater mystery than he anticipated.

Spenser tracks down a psychopathic killer whose trademark is the red rose he leaves on the body of each of his victims.

Touching factual reminiscences are woven with historical hardboiled fiction in this account of Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in baseball, written by the author of the bestselling Spenser, PI series. Injured at Guadalcanal and subsequently abandoned by his wife, WWII vet Joseph Burke is suffering from physical and emotional wounds. He gets an unexpected renewed lease on life when he's hired as Jackie Robinson's bodyguard for the black ballplayer's first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Interleaved with this fictional account are the author's own memories of being a boy--and devoted Dodgers fan--during the same time period.

When an actor is shot and killed on stage, Spenser and Hawk must penetrate Port City's Chinese underworld to find a motive for the murder.

When Spenser is asked to take a case for his lover's ex-husband, he reluctantly obliges. Brad Sterling has always been a troublemaker, and now he's facing sexual harassment charges while in the midst of planning a huge fundraiser. As Spenser digs into the circumstances surrounding the fundraiser, he uncovers some nasty business that may not be in his client's best interest.

It's a case of too many PIs in this 31st entry in the popular Spenser series. When Marlene Rowley suspects her husband Trent of cheating on her, she hires Boston sleuth Spenser to gather the evidence. However, not long after Spenser begins the snoop job, he learns that Trent thinks Marlene's being unfaithful, too, and has his own PI tailing her. There's yet another PI following Trent's mistress, who's one of Trent's co-workers at Kinergy, a major energy-trading corporation. At first, Spenser suspects that all of this surveillance and hanky-panky are somehow linked to the sex advice of a radio talk show host who's been encouraging his audience to become swingers. But when Trent is murdered, and Spenser is hired to look into it, his investigation turns toward Kinergy's shady business practices.

Boston private eye Spenser investigates a murder that may be related to a cocaine smuggling ring.

Touching factual reminiscences are woven with historical hardboiled fiction in this account of Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in baseball, written by the author of the bestselling Spenser, PI series. Injured at Guadalcanal and subsequently abandoned by his wife, WWII vet Joseph Burke is suffering from physical and emotional wounds. He gets an unexpected renewed lease on life when he's hired as Jackie Robinson's bodyguard for the black ballplayer's first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Interleaved with this fictional account are the author's own memories of being a boy--and devoted Dodgers fan--during the same time period.