Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic
Spenser: Book #47
- By: Ace Atkins & Robert B. Parker
- Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
- Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Description
Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions.
The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable piece stolen, Gentlemen in Black by a Spanish master, arrives at the desk of a Boston journalist, the museum finds hope and enlists Spenser's help.
Soon the cold art case thrusts Spenser into the shady world of black market art dealers, aged Mafia bosses, and old vendettas. A five-million-dollar-reward by the museum's top benefactor, an aged, unlikable Boston socialite, sets Spenser and pals Vinnie Morris and Hawk onto a trail of hidden secrets, jailhouse confessions, and decades-old murders.
Set against the high-society art scene and the low-life back alleys of Boston, this is classic Spenser doing what he does best.
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Spenser Series
Judgment
By: Carey Baldwin
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
When a coed falls prey to a sadistic murderer, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin "Caity" Cassidy and Special Agent Atticus Spenser are called in to testify—one for the defense, one for the prosecution. With warring approaches to justice, these two rivals have been butting heads for years—both inside the courtroom and out. And at first, this case... Read more »
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The Godwulf Manuscript
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.
The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but... Read more »
Fallen
By: Carey Baldwin
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A body just fell from the sky onto Hollywood Boulevard. When a beautiful prostitute is dumped onto the Walk of Fame, FBI profiler Atticus Spenser and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy are called in to solve one of their most baffling cases yet. The media's dubbed him the Fallen Angel Killer—a crazed murderer who's leaving the bodies of... Read more »
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God Save the Child
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives.
It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like... Read more »
Notorious
By: Carey Baldwin
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Dallas socialite Cynthia Langhorne is infamous for her beauty, her philanthropy, and her home wrecking—until she's found shot through the heart and posed nude at a fundraising ball. The case is high profile, and there's a bigger problem: Cindy is the wife of a decorated FBI special agent—the prime suspect in her murder. When the Bureau sends FBI... Read more »
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Mortal Stakes
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life.
Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past...or to find himself trapped between... Read more »
Promised Land
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite.Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape Cod sun. The wife has turned up as a hot suspect... Read more »
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The Judas Goat
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy.
But there are nine killers to one Spenser -- long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation. The rest depends on a wild plan. Spenser will get... Read more »
Looking for Rachel Wallace
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post
Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare... Read more »
Early Autumn
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“[Robert B.] Parker's brilliance is in his simple dialogue, and in Spenser.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.
With... Read more »
A Savage Place
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.
Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has... Read more »
Ceremony
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Spenser's out to make war, not love, as he goes after Boston's entire X-rated industry. Pretty teenager April Kyle has disappeared into the city's darkest underworld, and to rescue her, Spencer pits muscle and wit against bullets and bullies. Read more »
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The Widening Gyre
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape.
The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of... Read more »
Valediction
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.
So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's... Read more »
A Catskill Eagle
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Spenser's girlfriend Susan goes away with another man, Jerry Costigan, the son of a very rich and dangerous criminal. Spenser and his friend, Hawk, go to find Susan. Soon they are in the world of the CIA, guns and murder. Read more »
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Taming a Sea-Horse
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Nice girls don't. But blond, beautiful April Kyle does. She's a hooker hooked on the wrong guy -- and she's on her way to trouble. So is Spenser.
Looking out for April has landed him in the crud of Times Square. It's not a long way to big-business boardrooms where blood money get laundered into long green, sex is a commodity, and young girls are... Read more »
Pale Kings and Princes
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“Ebullient entertainment.”—Time
A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.
Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?
Spenser will stop at nothing to find... Read more »
Crimson Joy
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give.
Spenser plays against time while he tracks the Red Rose killer from Boston's Combat Zone to the suburbs. His trap is both daring... Read more »
Playmates
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Spenser smells corruption in a college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. All manner of sleaze -- from corrupt academics to hoods with graduate degrees -- have their fingers in the pot.
Spenser's search takes him from lecture halls to blue collar bars and finally into a bloody confrontation with... Read more »
Stardust
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way.
First, there's Jill herself. She's spoiled, arrogant, drugged out -- made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her -- does she imagine it, or is it real?
Spenser monitors her... Read more »
Hugger Mugger
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Spenser is back and embroiled in a dangerous and multi-layered case. Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, hires him to find out who. Spenser goes to Georgia to protect Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. Disregarding the... Read more »
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Potshot
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Boston P.I. Spenser returns — heading west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town recently reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the pressures of their high-flying lifestyles. When a band of modern-day mountain men, led by a charismatic individual known as The Preacher, takes... Read more »
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Potshot
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Boston P.I. Spenser returns — heading west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town recently reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the pressures of their high-flying lifestyles. When a band of modern-day mountain men, led by a charismatic individual known as The Preacher, takes... Read more »
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Widow's Walk
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The indefatigable, poetry-dishing Spenser finds himself in the middle of yet another whopper of a case. A seemingly dim blonde with a supermodel-class body is accused of murdering her blue-blooded, Mayflower-descended banker of a husband. Her alibi: she was watching Survivor in another room. Mary Fiore, Spenser’s seductive lawyer friend, a... Read more »
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Back Story
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Renaissance man Spenser - he of the acerbic social commentary, the gourmet cookery, and the steely abs - turns his considerable talents to the unraveling of a thirty-year-old murder mystery. During a 1974 holdup in a Boston bank by a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade, Emily Gordon, a visitor cashing traveler's checks, is... Read more »
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Bad Business
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband Trent is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for: not only does he find a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint efforts, Spenser soon finds himself investigating both individual... Read more »
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Cold Service
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
When Spenser's closet ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting booking Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul. Hawk, always proud, has never been dependent on anyone. Now he is forced to make connections: to the medical technology that will ensure his physical... Read more »
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School Days
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Hundred-Dollar Baby
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Once upon a time, though not so long ago, there was a girl named April Kyle–a beautiful teenage runaway who turned to prostitution to escape her terrible family life. Now, April Kyle’s return in Hundred-Dollar Baby is nothing short of shocking.
When a mature, beautiful, and composed woman strides into Spenser’s office, the Boston PI barely... Read more »
Now & Then
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Spenser knows something’s amiss the moment Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guy’s aggressive yet wary, in the way men frightened for their marriages always are. So when Doherty asks Spenser to investigate his wife Jordan’s abnormal behavior, Spenser agrees. A job’s a job, after all.
Not surprisingly, Spenser catches Jordan with another... Read more »
Rough Weather
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
“Robert B. Parker is that rarity–a prolific author whose books are consistently original, suspenseful and fascinating. His crackling dialogue is always fresh and smart-alecky. You’re happily hooked before you know it.”-Forbes
Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected–and she needs Spenser’s help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi,... Read more »
The Professional
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a... Read more »
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Painted Ladies
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The brilliant new Spenser novel from the beloved New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker.
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting.
The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his... Read more »
Sixkill
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The last Spenser novel completed by Robert B. Parker.
On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the Boston PD calls on Spenser to investigate. Things don’t look so good for Jumbo, whose appetites for food, booze, and sex are as outsized as his... Read more »
Robert B. Parker's Lullaby
By: Ace Atkins & Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother’s murder, he’s not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South... Read more »
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Silent Night
By: Robert B. Parker & Helen Brann
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he’s confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities for the homeless and lost. Slide’s mentor, Jackie Alvarez, is... Read more »
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Spenser Confidential (Movie Tie-In)
By: Ace Atkins & Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 7 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
Previously Published as Robert B. Parker's Wonderland
NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING MARK WAHLBERG AS SPENSER!
Old friends. Small favors. Bitter rivals. Stirred together, it all makes for one explosive cocktail in this New York Times bestselling thriller that has Spenser feeling the heat...
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the... Read more »
Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot
By: Ace Atkins & Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser returns in an outstanding new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins.
Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots’ marquee players—a hard-nosed linebacker who’s earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly... Read more »
Robert B. Parker's Kickback
By: Ace Atkins & Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times–bestselling series from author Ace Atkins.
What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he... Read more »
Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn
By: Ace Atkins
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in this adventure in Ace Atkins’ iconic New York Times bestselling series.
The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston’s South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice,... Read more »
Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies
By: Ace Atkins & Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man’s trail of smoke and mirrors in this thrilling entry in Robert B. Parker’s long-running series.
Connie Kelly thought she’d found her perfect man on an online dating site. She fell so hard for handsome, mysterious M. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost three hundred thousand... Read more »
Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic
By: Ace Atkins & Robert B. Parker
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions.
The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep,... Read more »
Robert B. Parker's Angel Eyes
By: Ace Atkins
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser heads to the City of Angels to meet old friends and new enemies in a baffling missing person case that might shake Tinseltown to its core.
Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with dreams of making it big as a model/actress in Hollywood. Two years later, she disappears from her... Read more »
Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me
By: Ace Atkins
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser and his young protégé Mattie Sullivan take on billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients.
Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother's killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss.... Read more »
Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby
By: Ace Atkins
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Boston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this next installment in Robert B. Parker's iconic New York Times bestselling series.
Boston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this next installment in Robert B. Parker's iconic New York Times bestselling series. Read more »
Paper Doll
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: David Dukes
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Hired by Loudon Tripp, an aggrieved Boston aristocrat who believes his late wife Olivia's brutal street slaying to be something other than random violence, Spencer immediately senses that his client's picture-perfect portrayal of his family life is false. For starters, the victim's reputation is too saintly, her house is as lived-in as a stage... Read more »
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The Russian van Gogh
By: Robert Child
Narrated by: Kelsey Lynn Stokes
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In a heart-pounding race against time the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam posts a $10 Million dollar reward for a stolen masterpiece now possessed by a Russian terrorist. The British Secret Service along with WWII stolen art recovery experts, The Monuments Men, join the hunt.
The Monuments Men, founded at Harvard University, dispatches female... Read more »
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