Follows the lives of Clay-Boy Spencer and his family during the summer he hunts a legendary white deer, falls in love, and learns what he will do with his life.

Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who'd beat her up for a dollar and kill her for five. Now she's disappeared, last seen in the Combat Zone, that side of Boston where nothing's proper, especially the sex for sale. With Hawk, his sidekick, Spenser takes on the whole X-rated industry. From a specialty whorehouse in Providence to stylish Back Bay bordellos, he pits muscle and wit against bullets and brawn until he...

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 the currency.

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.

Spencer and his cohort Hawk investigate a murder in the housing projects of Boston and are drawn into a world of violence and hate.

Spenser and Hawk solve the murder of an actor during the performance of a politically controversial play.

Spenser is hired by big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura to find his daughter's missing husband, landing the private investigator smack in the middle of a gangland power struggle.