Summer in Paradise, Massachusetts, is usually an idyllic season?βbut not this time. A Hollywood movie company has come to town, and brought with it a huge cast, crew, and a troubled star. Marisol Hinton is very beautiful, reasonably talented, and scared out of her wits that her estranged husband's jealousy might take a dangerous turn. When she becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert.
And when Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest bring him into conflict with the local selectment, the DA, and some people with very deep pockets. There's murder in the air, and it's Jesse's reputation as an uncompromising defender of the lawβand his lifeβon the line.
Review
"No one understands what makes Bob Parker's Jesse Stone tick better than Michael Brandman, who help bring him to television.... I know Michael is just the writer to carry Jesse into the future."
βTom Selleck
βBrandman in his second go-round as the caretaker of the late Parkerβs Stone franchise nails Parkerβs compressionist prose.β
β* Booklist
"Brandman perfectly reproduces Parkerβs style in this impressive continuation of his series featuring Jesse Stone.... As with the originals, the pleasure lies more in the easy, banter-filled writing, balanced with the lead's apparently limitless compassion, informed by bitter experience." β Publishers Weekly on Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues*
About the Author
Robert B. Parker was the author of more than fifty books. He died in January 2010.
Michael Brandman is the author of the New York Times bestseller Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues. He is the award-winning producer of more than thirty motion pictures, and collaborated with Robert B. Parker for years on movie projects, the Spenser TV movies, and the Jesse Stone series of TV movies starring Tom Selleck. Brandman cowrote the screenplays for Stone Cold , No Remorse , and Innocents Lost , and supervised the screenplay adaptations of Night Passage , Death in Paradise , and Sea Change. He lives in California.