Sea Change
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers
Published:27th Nov '14
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When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it at first appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be a difficult and emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida; she also had a penchant for steamy sex and was an enthusiastic participant in a video depicting the same. Somehow the combination of her past and present got her killed, but no one is talking - not the crew of the Lady Jane, the Fort Lauderdale yacht moored in Paradise harbour; nor her very blonde, very tanned twin sisters, Corliss and Claudia; and not her curiously affectless parents, living out a sterile retirement in a Miami high rise.
But someone - Jesse - has to speak for the dead, even if it puts him in harm's way.
Parker writes old-time, stripped-to-the-bone, hard-boiled: school of Chandler...His novels are funny, smart and highly entertaining...There's no writer I'd rather take on an aeroplane -- Sam Leith * Daily Telegraph *
...timing and pace are all. Parker knows what he's about, and Sea Change is a cracker -- Sam Leith * Daily Telegraph *
In Sea Change glorious harbor scenes of sailboats and yachts gathered for Race Week are tarnished by the ugly crimes Jesse is investigating - the statutory rapes of local girls lured aboard the yachts by dirty old men from Florida and the murder of a woman involved in procuring the victims -- Marilyn Stasio * New York Times *
If Spenser is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity...you want to cheer * New York Times Book Review *
Stone is a work in progress whose following is likely to increase as he continues to grow * Publishers Weekly *
ISBN: 9781843444343
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192 pages