Henry Carter Hull

Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment.

Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.

Spenser is called in to investigate when actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of raping and murdering a young woman, and as Spenser tries to uncover the truth, he forms an unusual alliance with Jumbo's bodyguard, a young Native American known as Sixkill.

The three-alarm fire at a Chelsea, Massachusetts, apartment building was the state’s deadliest fire in more than two decades, leaving seven people dead, including two firefighters. Investigators said it was a simple accident, the fault of bad wiring. But one of the men who survived, Boston firefighter Jack McGee, blames an arsonist for the blaze. His finger-pointing soon makes him a pariah in the department, a traitor to some, and a kook to others....

Spenser is hired by big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura to find his daughter's missing husband, landing the private investigator smack in the middle of a gangland power struggle.