Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot

Reed Farrel Coleman

Sep 2014 · A Jesse Stone Novel Book 13 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

"Coleman keeps the characters and the somber atmosphere but makes the book his own stylistically." --Booklist

Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times–bestselling series.
 
It’s been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and still longer since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a major league baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team at a hip New York city hotel, he is forced to grapple with his memories and regrets over what might have been.

Jesse left more behind him than unresolved feelings about the play that ended his baseball career. The darkly sensuous Kayla, his former girlfriend and current wife of an old teammate is there in New York, too. As is Kayla’s friend, Dee, an otherworldly beauty with secret regrets of her own. But Jesse’s time at the reunion is cut short when, in Paradise, a young woman is found murdered and her boyfriend, a son of one of the town’s most prominent families, is missing and presumed kidnapped.

Though seemingly coincidental, there is a connection between the reunion and the crimes back in Paradise. As Jesse, Molly, and Suit hunt for the killer and for the missing son, it becomes clear that one of Jesse’s old teammates is intimately involved in the crimes. That there are deadly forces working below the surface and just beyond the edge of their vision. Sometimes, that’s where the danger comes from, and where real evil lurks. Not out in the light—but in your blind spot.      

Ratings and reviews

I liked the book well enough. It kept me reading. The characters were interesting though perhaps a little over the top in some cases in terms of believability but hey it's a junk novel so you come to expect that. What disappointed me was the way in which it wrapped up. For one thing there were the changes in character of a couple of the main characters but mostly there seemed too many dangling threads.

Reed Farrel Coleman captures the essence of Jesse Stone. This is a novel with unexpected twists and an insight into Jesse pre-Paradise! I highly recommend this book! It is compelling!

Jesse Stone...I love you! It's like Robert B. Parker never left us!

About the author

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books. He died in January 2010.
 
Reed Farrel Coleman, called “a hard-boiled poet” by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan, is the Edgar-nominated author of eighteen novels and three novellas, including the critically acclaimed Moe Prager series. A three-time winner of the Shamus Award, he has also won the Anthony, Macavity, Barry and Audie awards. He teaches writing at Hofstra University and is a founding member of MWA University. He lives with his family on Long Island.