Books like Hundred-dollar baby by Robert B. Parker

Jack Reacher, an ex‑military policeman, arrives in Margrave, Georgia, only to be arrested for murder—an accusation he insists is false, but in a town where he has no allies, his pursuit of truth becomes a race against time.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

Renowned detective Philip Marlowe investigates the mysterious disappearances of two wives in Los Angeles, revealing a tangled web of marriage, crime and intrigue.

In "Cheap Shot," tough Boston PI Spenser teams up with his protégés to rescue the kidnapped son of a Brutish Patriots linebacker amid a city‑wide underworld showdown.

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.

Private Investigator Mattie Sullivan uncovers the truth about her murdered mother in Boston's gritty South Side neighborhood while trying to find closure and peace for her siblings and grandmother.

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.

A hit-and-run slays an on‑the‑job cop, and the surviving detective turns to Spenser and his crew for retribution in this hard‑boiled mystery.

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.

Private detective Spenser investigates a political and morally complex case involving a dangerous terrorist organization and the woman he loves, uncovering the truth and risking everything to keep Susan Silverman safe.

When New England Patriots linebacker Kinjo Heywood’s son is kidnapped, his agent enlists Spenser to uncover the men behind the abduction, enlisting the help of private investigators Hawk and Zebulon Sixkill to rescue the child.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

Spenser is hired by a Boston lawyer to stop a blackmailer who is threatening wealthy wives; when the victims begin dying, the case turns into a deadly investigation involving rich husbands and hidden motives.

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.

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.