I still would not rate these books quite as highly as I do the Spenser novels. This element is an unfortunate feature in a series that is otherwise pretty entertaining.
It wasn’t very long before I wanted to shout, “Enough! Do something about it or cut it loose!!” But no, they’d rather parade their angst before the world in what seems to me like a particularly perverse display of narcissism.
These two seem to want to drag the carcass of their blighted love around like the proverbial ball and chain. There are phone calls at all hours of the day and night, filled with misery and yearning. Although they’re divorced, they can’t let go. I read the first two books in this series before giving up on it because of Jenn, or more specifically, because of the relationship between Jenn and Jesse. To add to his troubles, he has left behind an ex-wife, Jenn, an aspiring actress with whom he is still in love. His mood, decidedly blue, is as unlike Spenser’s as it could possibly be. Drummed out of the storied LAPD due to out- of- control drinking, he has fetched up in this small Massachusetts town in a desperate attempt at a new beginning. None of this is new to Jesse, who is a refugee from the Los Angeles Police Department. It is liberally peopled with miscreants of every stripe, from drug dealers and petty thieves to corrupt officeholders and wheelers and dealers on the take. These being crime novels, and especially crime novels by Robert B.
While Spenser is a private investigator – and master of the snappy riposte, in the tradition of private eyes from Hammett’s Sam Spade on down – Jesse Stone is a cop in Paradise, a small (fictional) town on the North Shore of Massachusetts. (Yes, thirty-six of ’em – that’s no typo!) Parker is the author of the popular Spenser novels, the first of which, The Godwulf Manuscript, which came out in 1973, with the thirty-sixth, Rough Weather, due out in October of this year. With the novel Night Passage, written in 1997, Robert B Parker began a new series featuring Jesse Stone, a cop with a tangled personal life and a checkered career history. Jesse Stone, in print and on film: Stranger in Paradise, Night Passage, and Stone ColdĪpat 8:23 pm ( Book review, books, Mystery fiction)
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