Spenser, a Boston private eye, agrees to help a former client, a young prostitute who is now a well-established madam, discover who is trying to blackmail her and uncovers connections with local kingpin Tony Marcus.
A serial killer stalks the women of Boston, killing with surgical precision and the same methods that a previous killer had used. The only hope for catching him seems to lie in Dr. Catherine Cordell, a trauma surgeon who two years earlier killed her attacker and now finds herself being hunted by the copy-cat murderer.
The city of Boston is shocked by a series of crimes in which wealthy men are forced to watch as their wives are brutalized, and Detective Jane Rizzoli believes the culprit is a man who is being influenced by a serial killer that has recently been arrested, but when the killer escapes from prison, Jane finds herself a target.
Boston detectives Jefferson and Brogan, investigating a series of brutal murders in July 2008, find the clues they are looking for in a mysterious salvaged World War II submarine and a sinister island in the South Seas.
Chronicles the 2004-05 Charlestown High School basketball season, focusing on the lives of two African-American players, Ridley Johnson and Jason White, and their coach, Jack O'Brien.
A comprehensive biography of founding father Samuel Adams, that chronicles his life, political ideals, and participation and influence in the American fight for independence.
Presents an illustrated study of America's first subway system built in Boston in 1897, and explores how it was dug, problems encountered, and opposition to it.
Argues that the Boston Red Sox missed out on having a dream team featuring Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays due to the franchise's racist practices, and examines the ownership dynasty of the Yawkey family and racial issues in the city of Boston as a whole.
