The Spencer Series

1. The Godwulf Manuscript (1973)

2. God Save the Child (1974)

3. Mortal Stakes (1975)

4. Promised Land (1976)

5. The Judas Goat (1978)

6. Looking for Rachel Wallace (1980)

7. Early Autumn (1981)

8. A Savage Place (1981)

9. Ceremony (1982)

10. The Widening Gyre (1983)

11. Valediction (1984)

12. A Catskill Eagle (1985)

13. Taming a Sea-Horse (1986)

14. Pale Kings and Princes (1987)

15. Crimson Joy (1988)

16. Playmates (1989)

17. Stardust (1990)

18. Pastime (1991)

19. Double Deuce (1992)

20. Paper Doll (1993)

21. Walking Shadow (1994)

22. Thin Air (1995)

23. Chance (1996)

24. Small Vices (1997)

25. Sudden Mischief  (1998)

26. Hush Money (1999)

27. Hugger Mugger (2000)

28. Potshot (2001)

29. Widow's Walk (2002)

30. Back Story (2003)
    Investigating an unsolved murder from 1974, Spenser discovers a cover-up that revolves around the F.B.I., organized crime and the counterculture.

31. Bad Business (2004)

32. Cold Service (2005)

33. School Days (2005)
    Lily Ellsworth-erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish-is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence. Jared's parents are resigned to his fate, and the boy himself doesn't seem to care whether he goes to prison for a crime he might not have committed.

Jesse Stone Novels

• Night Passage (1997)

• Trouble in Paradise (1998)

• Death in Paradise (2001)

Sunny Randall Novels
(Note:  Detective fans know that Boston, Private Eye Sunny Randall is the daughter of Robert B. Parker's character Spencer's!  Diehard fans also know that Parker created his Sunny Randall series expressly for good friend Helen Hunt, with an eye toward the actress playing the petite blonde investigator on the silver screen!)

1. Family Honor (1999)

2. Perish Twice (2000)
   Sunny is hired as a bodyguard to protect a best-selling author from a stalker -- her psychotherapist ex-husband.

3. Shrink Rap (2002)
   The private investigator Sunny Randall is hired as a bodyguard to protect a best-selling author from a stalker -- her psychotherapist ex-husband.

4. Melancholy Baby (2004)

• See also Spenser's Boston (1994) with Kasho Kumagai (Photographer)

Raymond Chandler

1. Poodle Springs (1990)
   "Philip Marlowe marries a rich, beautiful society lady who wants him to settle down. But old habits die hard, and Marlowe soon is back in business, enmeshed in a case involving pornography, bigamy, and murder." (Ingram)

2. Perchance to Dream (1991)
   In a sequel to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Marlowe takes on a case involving General Sternwood, who is six feet under, Vivian, who is dating a blackmailer, and Carmen, a sanitorium escapee. Reprint. K.

Other Fiction

• Wilderness (1980)

• Love and Glory (1980)

• Surrogate (1982)

• Three Weeks in Spring (1982) with Joan H. Parker

• All Our Yesterdays (1994)

• Appaloosa (2005)

Non-Fiction

• The Private Eye in Hammett and Chandler  (1984)

• Parker on Writing (1985)

• Raymond Chandler's Unknown Thriller: The Screenplay of Playback (1986) with Raymond Chandler

• A Year At The Races (1990) with Joan H. Parker, William Strode (Photographer)

• Sport's Illustrated Training With Weights:  The Athlete's Free-Weight Guide (1990)

• Boston: History in the Making (1999)

See also:

• The Robert B. Parker Companion (2005) by Dean James and Elizabeth Foxwell
  Finally, here is the complete guide to Robert B. Parker's novels from Spenser to Jesse Stone to Sunny Randall, plot summaries, cast of characters, Boston locations and maps, and more.

  Even before he was named Grand Master for Lifetime Achievement by the Mystery Writers of America, Edgar® Award-winning Robert B. Parker had assumed the mantle of dean of American crime fiction. "Taking his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald" (Boston Globe), he transcended the crime genre. As one of the most prolific writers in the world, he reinvented crime writing.