Boston' premier P.I. invesigates the murder of a prominent local banker with family ties to the "Mayflower"--and perhaps the Mob.

When a sudden tragedy kills his wife and child, Rome Matthews is devastated, until his wife's friend Sarah Harper helps him to pick up the pieces. After they marry, Sarah is ecstatic except that Rome doesn't want any children. What he doesn't know is that she's been in love with him for years and that she's pregnant.

Spenser and Hawk solve the murder of an actor during the performance of a politically controversial play.

Spencer and his cohort Hawk investigate a murder in the housing projects of Boston and are drawn into a world of violence and hate.

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.

Follows the lives of Clay-Boy Spencer and his family during the summer he hunts a legendary white deer, falls in love, and learns what he will do with his life.

Spencer is hired by Loudon Tripp to find his wife's murderer. Tripp doesn't believe she was a victim of random violence.

Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who'd beat her up for a dollar and kill her for five. Now she's disappeared, last seen in the Combat Zone, that side of Boston where nothing's proper, especially the sex for sale. With Hawk, his sidekick, Spenser takes on the whole X-rated industry. From a specialty whorehouse in Providence to stylish Back Bay bordellos, he pits muscle and wit against bullets and brawn until he...