Rough Weather (A Spenser Mystery)

Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well-connected. She''s also a notorious gold digger only recently separated from her latest husband - and she''s hired Spenser to act as her stand-in spouse. The Boston P.I. is to accompany Heidi to her private island to attend her daughter''s wedding. It should be a straightforward job, but when his old nemesis Rugar - the Gray Man - arrives, Spenser realizes that something is amiss. As a storm strikes, cutting off the island, a kidnapping and a series of murders turn celebrations into chaos. With six dead bodies and more questions than he can handle, Spenser begins a search for answers - and the Gray Man. ''One of the great series in the history of the American detective story'' New York Times