title: Small Vices
text: # Small Vices
  
  Small Vices is the 24th Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The story follows Boston-based PI Spenser as he tries to solve the murder of a college student.
  
  ## Recurring characters
  
  * Spenser
  * Dr. Susan Silverman, Ph.D
  * Hawk
  * Lee Farrell
  * Martin Quirk
  * Frank Belson
  * Vinnie Morris
  * Gino Fish
  * Paul Giacomin
  * Henry Cimoli
  * Rita Fiori
  * Ives
  * Patricia Utley
  * Pearl the Wonder Dog
  * Healy
  * Rugar
  
  ## In other media
  
  Spenser: Small Vices, is a made-for-TV movie starring Joe Mantegna as Spenser.
  
  Mantegna subsequently reprised the role in Spenser: Thin Air and Spenser: Walking Shadow.
  
  ### Cast
  
  * Joe Mantegna as Spenser
  * Marcia Gay Harden as Susan
  * Shiek Mahmud-Bey as Hawk
  * Joanna Miles as Evans
  * Robert B. Parker as Ives
  