Stone Cold

Stone Cold

by RobertB.Parker (Author)

Synopsis

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 the beach, only to be discovered hours later--with two holes in his chest. A woman drives her Volvo to the mall to do some grocery shopping, and is 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 media add untold pressures, Jesse begins to feel the heat. Already walking an emotional tightrope, Jesse begins to stumble: 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.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 27 Oct 2003

ISBN 10: 0719562953
ISBN 13: 9780719562952
Book Overview: Other titles by Robert B. Parker include Widow's Walk , Potshot , Hugger Mugger , Death in Paradise , Trouble in Paradise and Night Passage .

Media Reviews
Melancholy, beautifully wrought. The book's ultimate pleasure lies in prose whose impeccability speaks of decades of careful writing. -- Publisher's Weekly If you want non-stop action, awesome characters and overall kick-ass entertainment you need to read Parker -- Janet Evanovich A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. And nobody does it better than Parker. His dialogue is snappy and funny, his characters believable; the plot reaches out from the page and grabs the reader -- Donna Leon, Sunday Times Pitch perfect ... with each book in this series, Jesse is more his own man - a lonely, unstable guy who is serious about self-redemption 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
Author Bio
Robert B Parker is the bestselling author of more than fourty-one books. He lives in Boston.