Book description
Hollywood has come to Paradise, Massachusetts. And Police Chief Jesse
Stone has been distracted from his duty by a beautiful young producer.
But before Jesse can get too cozy, the leading star of the movie,
Marisol Hinton, approaches him for help. Her meth-addicted ex is
terrorizing her, and, expecting him to turn up in town, she grows
increasingly frightened for her life. Jesse, meanwhile, is waging a
war against an off-the-rails teenage girl - the seemingly untouchable
daughter of a local business magnate - whose reckless and dangerous
driving is endangering Paradise's citizens on a daily basis. And as if
he's not got enough to be dealing with, Jesse's juggling a third ongoing
investigation: addressing a string of complaints from angered locals,
claiming they are being charged suspiciously high fees by the local
water company. Not one to give up a fight, Jesse throws himself into
all three cases with his characteristic bullish vigour. But what he
doesn't necessarily realize is that those that seem to present the least
danger will prove to be the most deadly. Robert B. Parker was the
author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective
series, the Jesse Stone novels, the acclaimed Virgil Cole / Everett
Hitch westerns, and the Sunny Randall novels. He passed away in 2010.
An award-winning producer of more than thirty motion pictures, Michael
Brandman collaborated with Robert B. Parker on more than a dozen of
them, as well as cowriting numerous screenplays of Robert B. Parker's
novels. He lives in California.
