High Profile

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The murder of a notorious public figure places Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone in the harsh glare of the média spotlight. "Spenser has been reincarnated, and his name is Jesse Stone." -Associated Press "Jesse Stone is still evolving. The pleasure we take in reading about Stone, a former baseball player and recovering alcoholic, is that we can't know what he's going to do or say next because he doesn't. He's still figuring it all out, including his relationship to his former wife. .. . Jesse needs to evolve, and he's trying, and that brings a welcome warmth to a book about heartless people." -The Boston Globe When the body ofcontroversial talk-show host Walton Weeks is discovered hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone finds himself at the center of a highly public case, forcing him to deal with small-minded local officials and national média scrutiny. When another dead body-that of a young woman- is discovered just a few days... Tovább

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The murder of a notorious public figure places Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone in the harsh glare of the média spotlight. "Spenser has been reincarnated, and his name is Jesse Stone." -Associated Press "Jesse Stone is still evolving. The pleasure we take in reading about Stone, a former baseball player and recovering alcoholic, is that we can't know what he's going to do or say next because he doesn't. He's still figuring it all out, including his relationship to his former wife. .. . Jesse needs to evolve, and he's trying, and that brings a welcome warmth to a book about heartless people." -The Boston Globe When the body ofcontroversial talk-show host Walton Weeks is discovered hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone finds himself at the center of a highly public case, forcing him to deal with small-minded local officials and national média scrutiny. When another dead body-that of a young woman- is discovered just a few days later, the pressure to solve the crimes becomes almost unbearable. Two victims in less than a week should provide a host of clues, but all Jesse runs into are dead ends. Yet what may be the most disturbing aspect of these murders is the fact that no one seems to care-not a single one of Weeks's exwives, not the family of the girl. And when the medical examiner reveals a heartbreaking link between the two departed souls, the mystery only deepens. Vissza