Stone Cold

Robert B. Parker

Jesse Stone book 4

Berkley-Mystery

Used Paperback

Cover has wear mostly around the edges and corners. Inside cover is tanned. Spine has no creasing. Pages are clean no internal tears, marks, or creases.

Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone has a problem no officer of the law likes to face: dead bodies keep appearing but clues do not.

Let’s take them in order. 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 store to do some grocery shopping, and is then 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. And there’s a fourth that comes close to Jesse personally.

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 feels considerable heat. Already walking an emotional tightrope, he stumbles; he’s spending too much time with the bottle, and with his ex-wife – neither of which helps him, or the case. 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.

B2-5