Synopses & Reviews
"Coleman keeps the characters and the somber atmosphere but makes the book his own stylistically." --Booklist Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Timesbestselling series.
Its been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and still longer since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a major league baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team at a hip New York city hotel, he is forced to grapple with his memories and regrets over what might have been.
Jesse left more behind him than unresolved feelings about the play that ended his baseball career. The darkly sensuous Kayla, his former girlfriend and current wife of an old teammate is there in New York, too. As is Kaylas friend, Dee, an otherworldly beauty with secret regrets of her own. But Jesses time at the reunion is cut short when, in Paradise, a young woman is found murdered and her boyfriend, a son of one of the towns most prominent families, is missing and presumed kidnapped.
Though seemingly coincidental, there is a connection between the reunion and the crimes back in Paradise. As Jesse, Molly, and Suit hunt for the killer and for the missing son, it becomes clear that one of Jesses old teammates is intimately involved in the crimes. That there are deadly forces working below the surface and just beyond the edge of their vision. Sometimes, thats where the danger comes from, and where real evil lurks. Not out in the lightbut in your blind spot.
Review
Praise for ROBERT B. PARKER'S BLINDSPOT by Reed Farrel Coleman “Fans of both Parkers Spenser and Jesse Stone series will enjoy this 13th installment… Like Spenser, Jesse is a man of honor who feels he must speak for the dead. Colemans writing mimics Parkers, with short chapters, snappy repartee, and just enough action… It is a great, fast beach read, recommended for all detective fiction fans.” — Library Journal
“Coleman is continuing the Stone saga in his own crisp prose style. … Jesse Stone fans will be eager to discover where Coleman takes this compelling series next.”
— Associated Press
"Coleman keeps the characters and the somber atmosphere but makes the book his own stylistically." —Booklist
“The new Jesse Stone thriller is electric. Told with spare, convincing descriptions and terse dialogue, the spirit of creator Robert B. Parker leaps off the page. …Critically acclaimed mystery author Reed Farrel Coleman has taken over the series in what might be the perfect pairing of character and living writer. …Coleman is among the best writers you've probably never read. … [He applies ]his own deeply empathetic style to the damaged, alcoholic police chief in a plot that takes readers back to the pivotal moment when Stone's baseball career ended. …The result is a new introduction to old characters and proof the past is a predator that never stops hunting.” —AZ Central
Coleman deftly captures the nuances of this character who Parker introduced in 1997 and featured in nine novels. Coleman proves to be the best choice to take up this series. Coleman skillfully keeps Stone on the track that Parker set, while also adding his own touches to the character and the story. As Atkins expertly reinvents the Spenser novels, Coleman shows his dexterity in "Blind Spot." —Oline Cogdill for SouthFlorida.com
“Reed has saved Jesse Stone by embracing the character, not by imitating Parker's writing style. He's done it by making Stone his own. He has fleshed out Stone's world, and his inner life, in so many ways. His first smart move was making the crime story personal, one that goes to the root of Stone's character, and that allows Reed to reboot the series, to reintroduce the character, his past, and his relationships and tweak them a bit along the way….Blind Spot is a cause for celebration.”
— Lee Goldberg, New York Times-bestselling author with Janet Evanovich of The Chase
“Coleman, best known for his Moe Prager series . . . successfully emulates the tone and style of the late Robert B. Parkers nine Jesse Stone novels.” — Publishers Weekly
Praise for the Jesse Stone series
“As in every Parker novel, the great attraction is the writing. The authors wry wit and clear, muscular prose go down so easily that his books seem to be not so much read as inhaled.” —Associated Press
“Stone, who continues to struggle with his drinking and his obsession with his manipulative ex-wife, is the most engaging of Parkers post-Spenser contemporary protagonists. . . . …The dialogue is spot-on and the professional chemistry between Stone and his small force is its own reason to read the series.” —Booklist
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and#8220;A great addition to the series.and#8221;and#8212;
West Orlando News and#8220;No one understands what makes Bob Parkerand#8217;s Jesse Stone tick better than Michael Brandman...and#8221; and#8212;Tom Selleck, star of the Jesse Stone TV movies
and#8220;If Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment.and#8221;and#8212;The New York Times Book Review
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and#8220;I had high hopes for what a writer of Colemanand#8217;s skill would bring to the series, and those hopes have not just been met, they have been exceeded. Iand#8217;m sure I am not going to be the first, or the only, person to declare that he has saved Jesse Stoneand#8230;
Blind Spot is cause for celebration.and#8221;and#8212;
January Magazine and#8220;A spellbinding mysteryand#8230;fast-paced, excitingand#8230;Coleman writes a potent crime story. Fans and newcomers alike will get hooked and should look forward to the next Jesse Stone book by Reed Coleman.and#8221;and#8212;Crimespree Magazine
and#8220;Blind Spot is everythingand#8230;this series can and should be.and#8221;and#8212;Bookreporter.com
Synopsis
The new Jesse Stone novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times bestselling series--and this one is -a cause for celebration- (January Magazine).
A reunion with former baseball teammates leaves Jesse Stone grappling with memories and regrets over what might have been, and that includes bittersweet memories of his old girlfriend, the darkly sensuous and secretive Kayla, who has unexpectedly arrived at the reunion as well.
But when a young woman is found murdered in Paradise, and her boyfriend, a son of one of the town's most prominent families, is kidnapped, Jesse's investigation yields some troubling suspicions: the reunion and the murder are connected, and one of Jesse's old friends is intimately involved in the crimes.
Synopsis
One girl is a teenage dose of pretty poison. The other is a movie starlet on the run from a violent past. These two cases collide in Paradise and Jesse Stone is trapped between them.
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About the Author
Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books. He died in January 2010.
Reed Farrel Coleman, called a hard-boiled poet” by NPRs Maureen Corrigan, is the Edgar-nominated author of eighteen novels and three novellas, including the critically acclaimed Moe Prager series. A three-time winner of the Shamus Award, he has also won the Anthony, Macavity, Barry and Audie awards. He teaches writing at Hofstra University and is a founding member of MWA University. He lives with his family on Long Island.