Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues

By Michael Brandman

Book Overview

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone returns in a brilliant new addition to the "New York Times"-bestselling series. Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season when a string of car thefts disturbs what is usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Pressure from the town politicians only increases when another crime wave puts residents on edge. Jesse confronts a personal dilemma as well: a burgeoning relationship with a young PR executive, whose plans to turn Paradise into a summertime concert destination may have her running afoul of the law.When a mysterious figure from Jesse's past arrives in town, memories of his last troubled days as a cop in L.A. threaten his ability to keep order in Paradise-especially when it appears that the stranger is out for revenge.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399157840
• ISBN13: 9780399157844
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

A good script

Being the first work after Mr. Parker's decease regarding the Jesse Stone series, it is an acceptable story-line but reads like a script for a program rather than the novels by the original author. This is to be somewhat expected since no one can truly replace an original. While no doubt making an admirable basis for the dramatised character, it fails to support the flesh-and-blood quality of the novels' life source, with the effect that has a relatively shallow, two-dimensional sense about it, even though there is more dialogue and description of activity and scenery that has a respectable flow of plot. One can thus admire all the more how Mr. Parker was able to a paint a rich scene in the mind's eye with such a paucity of writing. This makes "Split Image" more poignant and fitting as his last Jesse Stone work.