Robert B. Parker Books

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Robert B. Parker was one of the most popular novelists of the second part of the 20th century. He was the master of crime fiction, and wrote many notable novels within this genre. His full name was Robert Brown Parker. Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and lived from September 17th, 1932 till January 18th, 2010, when he died suddenly of a heart attack. As a child he met Joan Hall who later became his wife. Joan and Robert had two sons, David and Daniel. Parker also served as infantryman in Korea for the US Army, and in 1957 he earned masters degree in English Literature (Boston University). In 1971, he even got his PhD for the dissertation: The Violent Hero, Wilderness Heritage and Urban Reality. His greatest wish was to be a writer, but before becoming one, he had several other jobs: technical writer, editor of a magazine, worked in advertising too. But when he started his teaching career at Northeastern University, Robert finally had time to write.

Order of Spenser Series

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1 The Godwulf Manuscript 1973 Description / Buy
2 God Save the Child 1974 Description / Buy
3 Mortal Stakes 1975 Description / Buy
4 Promised Land 1976 Description / Buy
5 The Judas Goat 1978 Description / Buy
6 Looking for Rachel Wallace 1980 Description / Buy
7 Early Autumn 1981 Description / Buy
8 A Savage Place 1981 Description / Buy
9 Ceremony 1982 Description / Buy
10 The Widening Gyre 1983 Description / Buy
11 Valediction 1984 Description / Buy
12 A Catskill Eagle 1985 Description / Buy
13 Taming a Sea-Horse 1986 Description / Buy
14 Pale Kings and Princes 1987 Description / Buy
15 Crimson Joy 1988 Description / Buy
16 Playmates 1989 Description / Buy
17 Stardust 1990 Description / Buy
18 Pastime 1991 Description / Buy
19 Double Deuce 1992 Description / Buy
20 Paper Doll 1993 Description / Buy
21 Walking Shadow 1994 Description / Buy
22 Thin Air 1995 Description / Buy
23 Chance 1996 Description / Buy
24 Small Vices 1997 Description / Buy
25 Sudden Mischief 1998 Description / Buy
26 Hush Money 1999 Description / Buy
27 Hugger Mugger 2000 Description / Buy
28 Potshot 2001 Description / Buy
29 Widow's Walk 2002 Description / Buy
30 Back Story 2003 Description / Buy
31 Bad Business 2004 Description / Buy
32 Cold Service 2005 Description / Buy
33 School Days 2005 Description / Buy
34 Hundred-Dollar Baby / Dream Girl 2006 Description / Buy
35 Now and Then 2007 Description / Buy
36 Rough Weather 2008 Description / Buy
37 The Professional 2009 Description / Buy
38 Painted Ladies 2010 Description / Buy
39 Sixkill 2011 Description / Buy
40 Silent Night ( With: Helen Brann) 2011 Description / Buy
41 Lullaby ( By: Ace Atkins) 2012 Description / Buy
42 Wonderland / Spenser Confidential ( By: Ace Atkins) 2013 Description / Buy
43 Cheap Shot ( By: Ace Atkins) 2014 Description / Buy
44 Kickback ( By: Ace Atkins) 2015 Description / Buy
45 Slow Burn ( By: Ace Atkins) 2016 Description / Buy
46 Little White Lies ( By: Ace Atkins) 2017 Description / Buy
47 Old Black Magic ( By: Ace Atkins) 2018 Description / Buy
48 Angel Eyes ( By: Ace Atkins) 2019 Description / Buy
49 Someone to Watch Over Me ( By: Ace Atkins) 2020 Description / Buy
50 Bye Bye Baby ( By: Ace Atkins) 2022 Description / Buy
51 Broken Trust ( By: Mike Lupica) 2023 Description / Buy
52 Hot Property ( By: Mike Lupica) 2024 Description / Buy
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Order of Jesse Stone Series

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1 Night Passage 1997 Description / Buy
2 Trouble in Paradise 1998 Description / Buy
3 Death in Paradise 2001 Description / Buy
4 Stone Cold 2003 Description / Buy
5 Sea Change 2005 Description / Buy
6 High Profile 2007 Description / Buy
7 Stranger in Paradise 2008 Description / Buy
8 Night and Day 2009 Description / Buy
9 Split Image 2010 Description / Buy
10 Killing The Blues ( By: Michael Brandman) 2011 Description / Buy
11 Fool Me Twice ( By: Michael Brandman) 2012 Description / Buy
12 Damned If You Do ( By: Michael Brandman) 2013 Description / Buy
13 Blind Spot ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2014 Description / Buy
14 The Devil Wins ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2015 Description / Buy
15 Debt to Pay ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2016 Description / Buy
16 The Hangman's Sonnet ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2018 Description / Buy
17 Colorblind ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2018 Description / Buy
18 The Bitterest Pill ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2019 Description / Buy
19 Fool's Paradise ( By: Mike Lupica) 2020 Description / Buy
20 Stone's Throw ( By: Mike Lupica) 2021 Description / Buy
21 Fallout ( By: Mike Lupica) 2022 Description / Buy
22 Buried Secrets ( By: Christopher Farnsworth) 2025 Description / Buy
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Order of Sunny Randall Series

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1 Family Honor 1999 Description / Buy
2 Perish Twice 2000 Description / Buy
3 Shrink Rap 2002 Description / Buy
4 Melancholy Baby 2004 Description / Buy
5 Blue Screen 2006 Description / Buy
6 Spare Change 2007 Description / Buy
7 Blood Feud ( By: Mike Lupica) 2018 Description / Buy
8 Grudge Match ( By: Mike Lupica) 2020 Description / Buy
9 Payback ( By: Mike Lupica) 2021 Description / Buy
10 Revenge Tour ( By: Mike Lupica) 2022 Description / Buy
11 Bad Influence ( By: Alison Gaylin) 2023 Description / Buy
12 Buzz Kill ( By: Alison Gaylin) 2024 Description / Buy
13 Booked ( By: Alison Gaylin) 2025 Description / Buy
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Order of Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch Series

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1 Appaloosa 2005 Description / Buy
2 Resolution 2008 Description / Buy
3 Brimstone 2009 Description / Buy
4 Blue-Eyed Devil 2010 Description / Buy
5 Ironhorse ( By: Robert Knott) 2013 Description / Buy
6 Bull River ( By: Robert Knott) 2014 Description / Buy
7 The Bridge ( By: Robert Knott) 2014 Description / Buy
8 Blackjack ( By: Robert Knott) 2016 Description / Buy
9 Revelation ( By: Robert Knott) 2017 Description / Buy
10 Buckskin ( By: Robert Knott) 2019 Description / Buy
11 Opium Rose ( By: Robert Knott) 2026 Description / Buy
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Order of Robert B. Parker Standalone Novels

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1 Wilderness 1979 Description / Buy
2 Surrogate 1982 Description / Buy
3 Love and Glory 1983 Description / Buy
4 All Our Yesterdays 1994 Description / Buy
5 Gunman's Rhapsody 2001 Description / Buy
6 Double Play 2004 Description / Buy
7 Edenville Owls 2007 Description / Buy
8 The Boxer and the Spy 2008 Description / Buy

Order of Robert B. Parker Non-Fiction Books

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1 Training with Weights ( With: John R. Marsh) 1974 Description / Buy
2 Three Weeks In Spring ( With: Joan H. Parker) 1978 Description / Buy
3 A Year at the Races ( With: Joan H. Parker) 1991 Description / Buy
4 Spenser's Boston 1994 Description / Buy

Order of Philip Marlowe Series

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1 The Big Sleep ( By: Raymond Chandler) 1939 Description / Buy
2 Farewell, My Lovely ( By: Raymond Chandler) 1940 Description / Buy
3 The High Window ( By: Raymond Chandler) 1942 Description / Buy
4 The Lady in the Lake ( By: Raymond Chandler) 1943 Description / Buy
5 The Little Sister ( By: Raymond Chandler) 1949 Description / Buy
6 The Long Goodbye ( By: Raymond Chandler) 1953 Description / Buy
7 Playback ( By: Raymond Chandler) 1958 Description / Buy
8 Poodle Springs ( With: Raymond Chandler) 1989 Description / Buy
9 Perchance to Dream 1991 Description / Buy
10 The Black-Eyed Blonde / Marlowe ( By: Benjamin Black) 2014 Description / Buy
11 Only to Sleep ( By: Lawrence Osborne) 2018 Description / Buy
12 The Goodbye Coast ( By: Joe Ide) 2022 Description / Buy
13 The Second Murderer ( By: Denise Mina) 2023 Description / Buy
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Order of Young Spenser Series

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1 Chasing the Bear 2009 Description / Buy

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1 Rambo ( By: David Morrell) 2022 Available at mysteriousbookshop.com
2 Elvis Cole and Joe Pike ( By: Robert Crais) 2022 Description / Buy
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6 Hieronymus Bosch ( By: Michael Connelly) 2022 Description / Buy
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8 Alex Delaware ( By: Jonathan Kellerman) 2022 Description / Buy
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14 Bob Lee Swagger ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2022 Description / Buy
15 Aloysius X. L. Pendergast ( By: Douglas Preston) 2022 Description / Buy
16 Lou Boldt (Short Story) ( By: Ridley Pearson) 2022 Description / Buy
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18 Charlotte and Thomas Pitt ( By: Anne Perry) 2022 Description / Buy
19 John Rebus ( By: Ian Rankin) 2022 Description / Buy
20 Mallory ( By: Carol O'Connell) 2022 Description / Buy
21 Jane Whitefield (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2022 Description / Buy
22 Ian Rutledge (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2022 Description / Buy
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24 Precious Ramotswe (Short Story) ( By: Alexander McCall Smith) 2022 Description / Buy
25 Maisie Dobbs (Short Story) ( By: Jacqueline Winspear) 2022 Description / Buy
26 The Lincoln Lawyer (Short Story) ( By: Michael Connelly) 2022 Description / Buy
27 Condor (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2023 Description / Buy
28 Ben Kincaid (Short Story) ( By: William Bernhardt) 2023 Description / Buy
29 Repairman Jack (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2023 Description / Buy
30 Joe Pickett (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2024 Description / Buy
31 Peter Diamond (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2024 Description / Buy
32 Nathan Heller (Short Story) ( By: Max Allan Collins) 2024 Description / Buy
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16 Detroit Noir 2007 Description / Buy
17 Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008 Description / Buy
18 Toronto Noir 2008 Description / Buy
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20 Manhattan Noir 2 2008 Description / Buy
21 Paris Noir 2008 Description / Buy
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39 Pittsburgh Noir 2011 Description / Buy
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96 Addis Ababa Noir 2020 Description / Buy
97 Tampa Bay Noir 2020 Description / Buy
98 Belgrade Noir 2020 Description / Buy
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Robert B. Parker Anthologies

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1 The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 1997 Description / Buy
2 Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe 2011 Description / Buy
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Parker’s career as a writer was very successful, and his novels are still remarkable, as well as his famous characters. Character that completely won audience’s attention is definitely private detective Spenser. Spenser series includes forty novels, all of them bestsellers. Another series of novels that is noteworthy is Jesse Stone series consisting of nine books. Jesse is a police chef in Paradise, Massachusetts. He has struggles with alcohol, problematic relationship with his ex-wife, but he’s respected in the police department, and amazing at solving most intriguing cases. Finally, the series of six books, Sunny Randall, with the main female character Sunny, has also been known as an outstanding set of detective books. Sunny (Sonya) is captivating, brave woman, who successfully takes up the role of private detective in Boston.

ROBERT B. PARKER’S AWARDS:

As a highly appreciated writer of his time, Parker received many awards. The first award was Best Novel Award for the novel Promised Land in 1977. For the best novel published in Japan, he received the Maltese Falcon Award for his fourth novel from Spenser series – Early Autumn in 1983. Furthermore, he received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, an organization of crime writers from New York.

ROBERT B. PARKER’S BOOKS INTO TV/MOVIES

For his most notable character, private detective Spenser, ABC television network created the series called: Spenser for Hire. ABC ran the series from 1985 to 1988. A few TV movies based on his Spenser Novels were also produced. A series that came later, the Jesse Stone novels, has been adapted into many TV movies.

BEST ROBERT B. PARKER’S BOOKS

The three of Parker’s most popular and known books belong to the unforgettable Spenser series: The Godwulf Manuscript, Promised Land, and Early Autumn.

The Godwulf Manuscript: Published in 1973, this was the novel that first launched the most interesting character: private detective Spenser. The setting is in the early 1970s. The president of the unnamed university, Bradford W. Forbes, hires investigator Spenser to find a stolen manuscript. Manuscript is a medieval book of an immense importance. Spenser is intelligent, wise, and knows how to deal with different cases. He doesn’t believe everything he sees or hears. His adventures are enticing, and full of cunning mysteries. The book develops various themes, and the characters are impressive and striking.

Promised Land: In this book, Promised Land is the name of a real estate development company owned by a businessman Harvey Shepard. Spenser is assigned to find Harvey’s missing wife. During the search, he encounters a group of militant feminists, and discovers interesting things about the businessman himself. Spenser needs to cope with numerous dilemmas, and difficult choices, in order to survive and escape all the dangers. Parker’s astonishing use of language and prose is incredible in Promised Land, and Spenser’s adventures are exciting, and full of new challenges.

Early Autumn: Parker’s best published book in Japan, written in 1981. This time, Spenser is entrapped into divorce problems of a couple whose son becomes a victim of that separation. Spenser is hired to find kidnapped son of a desperate mother. On his way, he faces many difficulties, and gets involved into complicated family relationships. More and more, Spenser becomes complex character who has many responsibilities. Blackmailing, survival in threatening world, fighting skills, risky situations – all this turns this book into a masterpiece that deserves to be remembered in the world of crime fiction.

When Does The Next Robert B. Parker book come out?

Robert B. Parker doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Spenser and was released on May, 25th 2022. It is the newest book in the Mysterious Profiles Series.

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  1. Robert B Parker was an extraordinary author, as made obvious above by the plethora of novels he wrote. Not only did he excel in quantity, but also in quality. Parker successfully brought in the new era of detective novel with the Spenser Series, which many have tried and failed to imitate.

    Nobody does detective books better than Parker.

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