A man whose son was killed in a building collapse claims that a political coverup sent an innocent building inspector to prison. 

Susan and Spenser get involved in a hostage situation when a killer abducts a teenager who witnessed his crime.

A 12-year-old girl hires Spenser to find out who killed her sister, whose murder is jeopardizing prospects for an evangelist with political aspirations.

Spenser investigates old friend Sgt. Belson, whose partner, now dead, may have been taking bribes.

Complications arise after an ex-model hires Spenser to protect her, and her Boston patrician husband is shot.

Spenser hunts for an illegal alien whose son is being held as bait by an immigration official. 

A deaf woman hires Spenser to find a man she had been corresponding with who had gone missing. 

Spenser goes undercover at a private high school to investigate heroin use on campus, but discovers something far more serious.

A former Bolshoi ballerina hires Spenser to recover a tape stolen from her murdered cosmonaut husband.

Bodyguards Spenser and Hawk accept blame when security methods fail, but they vow to make a racketeer pay.

Spenser thinks his client, who is researching designer drugs, is worried about more than missing earrings and the whereabouts of her gigolo boyfriend. 

Quirk is suspended over allegations that he tipped off an illegal-gambling ring about a planned raid, and he refuses to speak in his own defense.

Spenser tries to save the parole of an ex-prostitute charged with weapons possession.

A ransom delivery snafu leads Spenser to doubt the existence of a radical group claiming responsibility for kidnapping a corporate executive.

Spenser is framed for theft after being hired to follow a man who stole a religious museum piece and promised it to two rival buyers.

Spenser is hired to protect a woman's identical twin sister from assassins.

After a symphony conductor's daughter is kidnapped, bodyguard Spenser is fired, but he finds later that her disappearance wasn't what it seemed.

Spenser suspects foul play in the apparent suicide of a novice who left the convent to help the poor in the ghetto fight evictions.

Susan agonizes over revealing her pregnancy to Spenser, who has taken in the children of the hit man he killed in self-defense.

Spenser rescues a Senator's kidnapped daughter and becomes a celebrity, and the target of two men who kill for the thrill of it.

Mobsters plan to escape justice by killing bodyguard Spenser and his charge, a grand-jury witness.

Spenser is hired by a real estate developer to find his runaway wife, who is mixed up in bank robbery and murder.