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61) Brighton
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Nearly three decades after his best friend takes the fall for a heinous act of violence they both committed, Kevin Pearce, now a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, reports on a string of murders in which his friend has been declared a prime suspect.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
PI Carlotta Carlyle of Boston investigates the death of an old lady who refused to give up her apartment for a development project. When an attempt is made to burn Carlotta's house, she knows she is onto something. By the author of Cold Case.
63) One-way ticket
Author
Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston attorney Brady Coyne tries to help when a friend's son is kidnapped by the Boston mob because of a gambling debt, and the family doesn't want to involve the law enforcement for fear of negative publicity.
64) Julie and Romeo
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julie Roseman and Romeo Cacciamani, sixty-year-old Boston florists from families that hate each other, meet and fall in love.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 46
Language
English
Description
Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter's latest double cross may be his last. Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious background working for the C.I.A. She fell so hard for M....
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Carla Neggers) volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Delighted with her purchase of a run-down, nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston's North Shore, graphic designer Tess Haviland stumbles upon a skeleton inside the basement wall, a body that mysteriously vanishes when she brings her neighbor over to see it.
67) Living single
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The story of a year in the lives of four thirty-something women navigating sex, singlehood, and the big city.
68) Playmates
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spenser, a hard-boiled Boston private eye, investigates when the leading college basketball forward appears to be shaving points. Spenser smells corruption in a college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. All manner of sleaze -- from corrupt academics to hoods with graduate degrees -- have their fingers in the pot. Spenser's search takes him from lecture halls to blue collar bars and finally into a...
69) Cold Ridge
Author
Series
U.S. Marshals series volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Photographer Carine Winters unwittingly becomes immersed in a murder investigation that forces her to team up with to Tyler North, the pararescueman who left her at the altar, an unlikely alliance that brings them face-to-face with unimaginable evil.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Rowland Sinclair receives word of his friend Daniel Cartwright's death, he sets out immediately from Singapore to Boston to honor the American millionaire's last wishes to execute his will. He is met with the outrage and anguish of a family spurned in favor of a missing heir about whom no one seems to have any knowledge-one Otis Norcross. As Rowly battles pressure from all sides to declare the mysterious heir non-existent, he finds evidence...
71) Cat's paw
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy bachelor is murdered in his baroque Boston mansion, a bizarre clue holds the key to whodunnit. --Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Sangamon Taylor is spreading the word about corporations piping toxic wastes into the water from his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Now, he's wanted by the FBI, the Mafia, and a group of Satan-worshipping drug dealers--the least of his problems. Because somewhere out there is an unhinged genetic engineer and a lab concocted bacterium that could destroy all ocean life.
73) The murder list
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Law student Rachel North will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows to be true. She's smart, she's a hard worker, she does the right thing, she's successfully married to a faithful and devoted husband, a lion of Boston's defense bar, and her internship with the Boston DA's office is her ticket to a successful future. Problem is--she's wrong. And in this cat and mouse game--the battle for justice becomes a battle for survival. The Murder List...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother's killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie is a college student with a side job working for the iconic private eye, and she dreams of being an investigator herself. When Mattie's childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects, Chloe Turner, is found dead, she decides to take on the case. Soon Spenser and Mattie find ties between Turner...
75) Nervous water
Author
Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston attorney Brady Coyne comes face to face with his past when he agrees to assist an aged relative with a sensitive family matter, embarking on a quest to find the man's missing daughter.
76) Shadow of death
Author
Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hiring a private investigator to learn if a political candidate's husband is having an affair, attorney Brady Coyne finds he is bound by attorney-client privilege from disclosing information when the investigator is murdered.
77) Dead man's hand
Author
Series
Unorthodox chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher's debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite, government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deeply evocative portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d'art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston's polite society. But when Isabella first arrives in Boston in 1861,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan--a decision...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 45
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Boston PI Spenser is approached by firefighter Jack McGee, who's convinced that the apartment blaze that took the lives of five residents and two firefighters was arson"--
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