Robert B Parker

Arriving in a small nineteenth-century western town where the sheriff has been killed and the residents are at the mercy of a renegade rancher, lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch face an adversary who works by playing psychological games.

"BEST FICTION 1999"

Popular Boston private investigator Spenser and his sidekick Hawk investigate untoward doings at a venerable university that involve politics, sex, and race and develop into a vast racial conspiracy, even as Spenser copes with stalkers and a love problem

When a theatrical company director hires Spenser and his sidekick Hawk to investigate strange doings at the theater, the Boston sleuth suddenly finds himself deep in a case of murder, corruption, and shifting identities

When Lisa St. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective, vanishes mysteriously, Spenser joins the search for the missing woman, following a dangerous trail that leads him to a sociopathic ex-lover and into a deadly confrontation with Lisa's dark past

A Sunny Randall novel.