Stone Cold

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Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone returns, tracking the path of a pair of thrill killers. "Pitch perfect . . . With each book in this series, Jesse is more his own man-a lonely, unstable guy who is serious about selfredemption but who lacks Spenser's natural defenses for living in existential pain. Let's trust Parker to keep him on the edge." -The New York Times Book Review Faris have embraced each amazing new creation to spring from the fertile imagination of Róbert B. Parker. But the praise for his series featuring small-town police chief Jesse Stone is unparalleled: "Melancholy, beautifully wrought/' according to Publishers Weekly's starred review of Death in Paradise. "The book's ultimate pleasure lies in prose whose impeccability speaks of decades of careful writing." In Stone Cold, Jesse Stone has a problem no officer of the law likes to face: Dead bodies keep appearing, but clues do not. A man takes his dog out for a run on (Continued on back flap)
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Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone returns, tracking the path of a pair of thrill killers. "Pitch perfect . . . With each book in this series, Jesse is more his own man-a lonely, unstable guy who is serious about selfredemption but who lacks Spenser's natural defenses for living in existential pain. Let's trust Parker to keep him on the edge." -The New York Times Book Review Faris have embraced each amazing new creation to spring from the fertile imagination of Róbert B. Parker. But the praise for his series featuring small-town police chief Jesse Stone is unparalleled: "Melancholy, beautifully wrought/' according to Publishers Weekly's starred review of Death in Paradise. "The book's ultimate pleasure lies in prose whose impeccability speaks of decades of careful writing." In Stone Cold, Jesse Stone has a problem no officer of the law likes to face: Dead bodies keep appearing, but clues do not. A man takes his dog out for a run on (Continued on back flap)
(Continued from front flap) the beach, only to be discovered hours later-with two holes in his chest. A woman drives her Volvo to the store to do somé grocery shopping, and is then found dead, her body crumpled behind her loaded shopping cart. A commuter takes a shortcut home from the train, and never makes it back to his house. Hunting down a serial killer is difficult and dangerous in any town, but in a town like Paradise, where the selectmen and the média add untold pressures, Jesse feels considerable heat. Already walking an emotional tightrope, he stumbles; he's spending too much time with the bottle, and with his ex-wife-neither of which helps him, or the case. And the harder these outside forces push against him, the more Jesse retreats into himself, convinced-despite all the odds-that it's up to him alone to stop the killing. As tough, clear-eyed, and sardonic as Jesse Stone himself, this is the Grand Master working at the peak of his powers. Róbert B. Parker is the bestselling author of more than forty-one books. He lives in Boston. Vissza