Books like Hugger mugger by Robert B. Parker

Spenser races to recover a stolen manuscript in Boston while a dead student leaves a single clue that upends the police inquiry.

Spenser is hired as a bodyguard for a young woman, only to find himself caught in a dangerous mystery that pulls him deep into Boston's underbelly.

When Henry Cimoli commissions Spenser to protect his Revere Beach condo, the pair must outwit a ruthless developer and a Vegas kingpin before a sprawling casino threatens Boston’s northern shore.

Dennis Lehane’s gritty Boston detective novel follows private investigator Patrick Kenzie as he hunts a sadistic stalker behind a woman’s death, confronting a psychopath that the law can’t touch.

In Rough Weather, Spenser tackles a kidnapping on a private island amid a hurricane, while protecting a wealthy client’s daughter at her wedding and confronting his nemesis, the Gray Man.

Spenser returns to the outlaw‑riddled desert town of Potshot, Arizona, to investigate the murder of a local tour guide and confront a ruthless gang led by the enigmatic Preacher.

Spenser investigates the possible murder of Melissa Henderson, a college student, as his former clients suspect a frame-up and hire him to uncover the truth.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

When Red Sox pitcher Marty Rabbs is shrouded in mystery and his wife Linda faces an unseen blackmailer, detective Spenser races to uncover a dangerous conspiracy that pits baseball’s drama against deadly threats.

In Boston, a bitter divorce spirals into a high‑stakes kidnapping drama when a father hires men to abduct his son and the mother hires Spenser to recover him. Spenser turns the tables, hunting both kidnappers in a deadly Maine woods confrontation.

Spenser, the grizzled Boston private investigator, snaps into the gritty world of a cabaret’s battered clientele when a gorgeous, unhinged prostitute named April Kyle claims she is lost and desperate for help.

Spenser is hired to investigate a theater board suspect, only to find himself in a dangerous murder case that spans municipal corruption, secret relationships, and international intrigue.

Editor C.B. Greenfield and reporter Maggie Rome investigate a murder that takes place during a nuclear protest camp.

A vicious serial killer terrorizes Boston, leaving a red rose for Spenser’s partner Susan Silverman. Spenser and his ally Hawk must bring the murderer to justice.

Hank Mitchell’s calm routine shatters when he, his brother Jacob, and their cynical accomplice Lou uncover an astonishing treasure that threatens to consume them with greed and danger.

In Boston’s gritty neighborhoods, Private Investigator Spenser partners with contract killer Hawk to hunt down the killers in a deadly gang‑drug showdown.

Spenser takes on a tangled case of alleged sexual harassment that spirals into murder, charity fraud, and a dangerous mob network.

When a woman is murdered, her daughter hires detective Spenser 28 years later to uncover the truth.

Spenser, an unorthodox private detective, tracks the theft of a 14th‑century illuminated manuscript, uncovering a tangled web of organized crime, drug trafficking, radical politics, adultery and murder.

A hard‑boiled Boston detective, Spenser, faces a new case that forces him to rescue a friend and protect a woman he loves, all while navigating the gritty streets of Massachusetts.