Spenser: For Hire

A wealthy businessman hires Spenser to find his missing wife.

Boston private investigator Spenser is hired to protect a Grand Jury witness and winds up as a target for a power-hungry woman who wants to be governor and a police lieutenant with a longing eye on the mayor's desk at City Hall.

Upon the murder of a close personal friend, Spenser and Hawk separately seek to bring to justice the culprits: two very bright thrill-seeking college-age youths. Patricia Clarkson, William H. Macy, and Angela Bassett guest star.

While caring for the orphaned kids of the hit man he killed, Spenser follows a trail to the man's employer. Meanwhile, Susan contemplates abortion after learning she is pregnant.

Spenser is hired to investigate the mysterious death of a young novice whose autopsy reveals her to have been pregnant.

Spenser seeks a mobster's son who apparently has abducted his girlfriend, the daughter of a famed conductor.