Robert Parker's Cheap Shot by Ace Atkins

Another finished book of Robert Parker's Spenser series.  Kinjo Haywood is an NFL linebacker with people who want a piece of him.  He hires Spenser to find out who has been following him.  Spenser thinks it has something to do with an altercation his client was in years ago.  Whoever is behind the harassment kidnaps his daughter.  He hires Spenser to find her and get her back.  The local FBI agent doesn’t want Spenser involved.  Kinjo does and it’s his girl and his money.  The girl’s mother is Kinjo’s first wife, the woman he is married to now is way out of her depth.  Spenser and his buddies track down an attempt to get ransom, only to find it was a scam.  They still don’t have the kid.  Spenser keeps following leads that all go to dead-ends.  Then Kinjo gets on the radio and announces he isn’t going to pay to get his kid back, he’s going to offer the reward money to anyone who kills her kidnappers.  That doesn’t make anyone happy.  Spenser tracks down the brother and a woman who were at the earlier altercation and finds the girl.  Then he figures out the real reason it all happened.