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Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost

Jesse Stone: No Remorse

Jesse Stone: Thin Ice

Appaloosa

Jesse Stone: Sea Change

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

Jesse Stone: Night Passage

Stone Cold

Monte Walsh

Walking Shadow

Thin Air

Poodle Springs

Spenser: A Savage Place

Spenser: The Judas Goat

Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes

Spenser: Ceremony

B.L. Stryker

A Man Called Hawk

Spenser: For Hire

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Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies was also produced based on the character. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited as reviving and changing the detective genre by critics and bestselling authors, including Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane.
Parker also wrote nine novels featuring Jesse Stone, a Los Angeles police officer who moves to a small New England town; six novels with Sunny Randall, a female private investigator; and four Westerns starring the duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. The first was Appaloosa, made into a film starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. The Jesse Stone books were adapted into a series of TV films starring Tom Selleck.
Since Parker's death, his family and estate have allowed all of his series to continue with various different authors involved: the Spenser books have been taken over by Ace Atkins (2012-2022) and Mike Lupica (2023-present); Jesse Stone by Michael Brandman (2011-2013), Reed Farrel Coleman (2014-2019) and Lupica (2020-2022); Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch by Robert Knott; and Sunny Randall by Lupica (2018-2020) and Alison Gaylin (2023).



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