Imprint: No Exit Press
Category: Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Series: A Jesse Stone Mystery
When two seemingly unconnected mysterious deaths occur on his watch, police chief Jesse Stone must pull out all the stops to unravel the truth and stop a killer from striking again.
The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team’s biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult – the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers about how the boy died and why, he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined to keep him from digging further.
Jesse suddenly must divide his attention between two cases after the shocking murder of former Paradise police chief, Charlie Farrell. Before his death, Farrell had been looking into a series of scam calls that preyed upon the elderly. But how do these ‘ghost calls’ connect to his murder? When threats – and gunshots – appear on Jesse’s own doorstep, the race to find answers is on. Both old and new enemies come into play, and in the end, Jesse and his team must discover the common factor between the two deaths in order to prevent a third.
RRP: £12.99
ISBN: 9780857305459
Published: February 27, 2023
Extent: 256 pages
RRP: £4.99
ISBN: 9780857305466
Published: September 12, 2022
‘Another good Jesse Stone novel, with all the characters you’ve grown to love. Fans of the seires will not be disappointed’
Red Carpet Crash
‘Robert B. Parker is one of the greats of the American hard-boiled genre’
Guardian
‘The author’s wry wit and clear, muscular prose goes down so easily that his books seem to be not so much read as inhaled’
Associated Press
‘If Spenser is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity’
NY Times Book Review