Лучшие книги Роберта Б. Паркера

R очепедной книге серии "Детективы Старого Света" представлены два остросюжетных романа известного американского автора Роберта Паркера: "Багровое веселье" и "Ранняя осень".

Казалось бы, что может быть проще, чем найти сбежавшую жену. Для частного детектива Спенсера - это мелкое заурядное дело. Даже он не мог предположить, что ситуация осложнится, поскольку в игре замешаны крупные деньги, высокопоставленные персоны и… кровь,пролитая на землю обетованную.

A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.

With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.

Сильные мира сего сами себе творят законы и сами же их нарушают. Однако ничто не вечно, и существует определенная грань, за которую заходить нельзя. Ибо некоторых людей обижать крайне опасно…

Жестоко убит журналист, собиравший материал о наркомафии. Частный детектив Спенсер отправляется в небольшой городишко Уитон, чтобы выяснить, кто убил журналиста и `большого любителя женщин` - наркоторговцы или ревнивый муж?

Опасная дичь, но и приманка тоже `кусается`. Частный детектив Спенсер берется, казалось бы, за невыполнимое задание - найти и обезвредить опаснейшую террористическую организацию. Которая не считается ни с кем и ни с чем. Но чтобы выманить хищника из логова, Спенсеру приходится предложить ему живца. То есть себя...

Не спускай глаз с толпы, ибо в ней может скрываться убийца. Телохранитель все время обязан быть начеку. Ведь один неверный шаг - и твой подзащитный мертв. И куда сложнее охранять человека, который совсем не желает твоей опеки...

Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past...or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16. America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike three, with Spenser out for good!

Частный детектив Спенсер ищет пропавшего мальчика. Родители уверены, что их сына похитили. Но после того, как Спенсер знакомится с ними, он начинает склоняться к мысли, что парень мог запросто сбежать. Обстановка в доме к тому располагает...

“Brann does a seamless job…Diehard Parker fans will be delighted.” —Publishers Weekly

A special treat for the holiday season – a rumination on Christmas, family, and the meaning of home as conceived by Robert B. Parker.

It’s December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he’s confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities for the homeless and lost. Slide’s mentor, Jackie Alvarez, is being threatened, and Street Business is in danger of losing its tenuous foothold in the community, turning Slide and many others like him back on the street. But it’s not a simple case of intimidation – Spenser, aided by Hawk, finds a trail that leads to a dangerous drug kingpin, whose hold on the at-risk community Street Business serves threatens not just the boys’ safety and security, but their lives as well.

Unfinished at the time of his death, Silent Night was completed by Parker’s longtime agent, whose decades-long association with Parker’s work gives her unique insight and perspective to his voice and storytelling style. Her contribution also speaks volumes about their enduring friendship.

Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked "D" -- for dead.

When the sun sets in Paradise, the women get nervous. A Peeping Tom is on the loose. According to the notes he sends Police Chief Jesse Stone, he's about to take his obsession one step further.

Hired as a bodyguard at an exclusive society wedding, Spenser witnesses an unexpected crime: the kidnapping of the young bride, which opens the door for murder, family secrets, and the reappearance of an old nemesis.

Investigating a case of infidelity sounds simple—until it plunges Spenser and his beloved Susan into a politically charged murder plot that’s already left three people dead.

A New York Times Bestseller.
In a compelling game of cat-and-mouse, Sunny uses all her skills to draw out her prey, realizing too late that she's setting herself up to become the next victim. When a serial murderer dubbed the Spare Change Killer by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out Phil Randall, the retired cop who headed the original task force. As a sharp-eyed investigator and a doting parent ("You're smart. You're tough. You, too, are a paradigm of law enforcement perfection.") Phil calls on his daughter, Sunny, to help catch the criminal who eluded him so many years before.Robert B. Parker has long been acknowledged as the dean of American crime fiction. He was named Grand Master of the 2002 Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America, an honor shared with earlier masters such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen. Parker is the author of over 50 bestsellers. He is the creator of the fictional wise-cracking, street-smart Boston private-eye Spenser, who inspired the ABC-TV series Spenser: For Hire.Robert B. Parker has long been acknowledged as the dean of American crime fiction. He was named Grand Master of the 2002 Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America, an honor shared with earlier masters such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen. Parker is the author of over 50 bestsellers. He is the creator of the fictional wise-cracking, street-smart Boston private-eye Spenser, who inspired the ABC-TV series Spenser: For Hire.

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone faces the case of his career in the newest novel in the bestselling series.

When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be an emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida; she also had a penchant for steamy sex and was an enthusiastic participant in a video depicting the same. Somehow the combination of her past and present got her killed, but no one is talking-not the crew of the Lady Jane, the Fort Lauderdale yacht moored in Paradise Harbor; not her very blond, very tan twin sisters, Corliss and Claudia; and not her curiously affectless parents, living out a sterile retirement in a Miami high rise. But someone-Jesse-has to speak for the dead, even if it puts him in harm's way.

With an unbroken string of bestselling suspense novels behind him, Robert B. Parker is nothing if not world-class. Now, after the success of Paper Doll, applauded by The Boston Globe as "one of the best Spensers in a decade, " Parker returns with his two-fisted sleuth in Walking Shadow - a twisty, ambitious whodunit, which finds them both breaking new ground. A Massachusetts waterfront town. A small repertory theater with a big reputation. A soupcon of scandal. And Spenser is on hand to steal the scene. Hired by the Port City Theater Company's board of trustees to investigate the director's claim that he is being followed, Spenser feels like a fish out of water - until an actor is gunned down during a performance of a politically controversial play. Then Boston's premier private cop and his cohort, Hawk, go into action, plunging straight into a maze of motives that constitutes a master class in the difficulty of judging reality from appearances. Spenser soon discovers that solving the actor's murder is only a piece of the puzzle. From covert carnal connections within the community to municipal corruption with international tentacles; from petty troublemakers to major malefactors for whom murder is merely a day at the office - this case has everything it takes to stump the sharpest of Sherlocks. And nobody loves a challenge more than Spenser. Heady and sardonic, with an unpredictable cast of lovers, liars, killers, and clowns, Walking Shadow entertains even as it ponders the instability of identities. It is a thoroughly engrossing performance by a classic talent.

They call him the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves one on the body of each woman he kills. But then the madman's eyes turn to Susan Silverman, and Spenser is on the case. For when Susan's life is in danger, Spenser becomes a hard-fisted, unstoppable locomotive--determined to bring the criminal to justice no matter what the odds!

Spenser has signed on to protect the glamorous star, Jill Joyce, from an escalating chain of anonymous harassments. However, he finds himself saddled with a lot more than he bargained for. The mischievous harassments, which are growing steadily more serious, could turn into homicide.