num_pages: 240
description: 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 finds what he's looking April Kyle, little girl lost. "Nowhere is Spenser's vitality clearer than in CEREMONY...Spenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from coffin-chaser to a full-bodied human being than any other detective hero." (Sun-Times, Chicago)
language: English
title: Ceremony
titlecomplete: Ceremony (Spenser, #9)
characters: Spenser, Hawk, Susan Silverman, April Kyle
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Hard Boiled, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 7377
places: Boston, Massachusetts
series: Spenser
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best PI Hardcover
publisher: G K Hall & Co