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Zusatztext Praise for Robert B. Parker “Not for nothing is Parker regarded as the reigning champion of the American tough-guy detective novel! heavyweight division.” —Entertainment Weekly For the Jesse Stone novels “If Spencer is the invincible knight! the timeless hero of American detective fiction! then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment.”— The New York Times Book Review And for Michael Brandman “[Brandman] is just the writer to carry Jesse into the future. No one understands what makes Bob Parker’s Jesse Stone tick better than Michael Brandman.”—Tom Selleck! star of the Jesse Stone TV movies "Part of a grand tradition..."— USA Today “I would personally like to thank Robert B. Parker for creating an admirable character like Jesse Stone and Michael Brandman for continuing his adventures and helping to keep Parker’s memory very much alive.”—BookReporter.com “Will help meet insatiable demand for all things Parker.”— Library Journal “Brandman nails Parker’s compressionist prose.”— Booklist "Brandman perfectly reproduces Parker’s style in [an] impressive continuation of his series featuring Jesse Stone."— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it's over. Zusammenfassung The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn’t exactly beautiful! but she’d tried to make the most of her looks. And now! alone in a seedy beachfront motel! she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn’t know her name. Whoever she is! she didn’t deserve to die. Jesse starts digging! only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it’s over. ...
