Robert B. Parkers Damned If You Do (A Jesse Stone Novel) - Hardcover

Brandman, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410461408 ISBN 13: 9781410461407

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2013

Synopsis

Police chief Jesse Stone uncovers a turf war between rival pimps after a young woman is found murdered in a shabby beach motel.

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About the Author:

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch Westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010.
Michael Brandman is the author of the "New York Times-"bestsellers "Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice "and "Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues." An award-winning producer of more than thirty motion pictures, he collaborated with Robert B. Parker for years on movie projects, Spenser TV movies, and the Jesse Stone series of TV movies starring Tom Selleck. He worked on the adaptations of "Stone Cold, Night Passage, Death in Paradise, " and "Sea Change," and wrote and produced the original screenplays for "Thin Ice, No Remorse, Innocents Lost," and "Benefit of the Doubt." He lives in California.

From Booklist:

The girl is young, pretty, and looks vaguely familiar to Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone. She’s also dead. She checked into the decaying bungalow resort with cash and an alias: undoubtedly, a working girl. Jesse feels he at least needs to determine her identity to avoid the indignity of an unmarked Jane Doe grave. The man who might provide a starting point is Gino Fish, the Boston crime boss. Gino claims to know nothing, but he sends a pimp named Thomas Walker to Stone. Meanwhile, Stone is dealing with a nursing-home runaway who happens to be an old friend with midstage Alzheimer’s. He’s being mistreated, but how do you take down a billion-dollar health-care conglomerate? In the end, Jesse has a more favorable view of the sex industry than he does of some health-care purveyors. Brandman, who worked closely with Parker on the Jesse Stone television movies, does a fine job moving the Jesse Stone series forward. He continues to be the gold standard for mystery writers attempting to preserve the Parker brand. --Wes Lukowsky

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1410461408
• ISBN 13: 9781410461407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 287