Stone Cold (Parker, Robert B.)
 Stone Cold is riviting: This is the fourth novel in the Jesse Stone series and by far the most pschological. This trip to Paradise finds Jesse the troubled cop tackling three problems: to capture the pair of serial killers who are murdering random [... more]
$19.95
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Blue Screen (Sunny Randall Novels)
Just Dull: This book isn't awful it just never drew me in. Both the main characters are regulars from other Parker books. After this I have no desire to try either of them again. I like Parker but these two were both too bland. I read it on a working [... more]
$29.95
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Sea Change
More like Sea Sickness: All of the women in this novel are never seen in any way other than sexual. Supposedly professional female police officers are coming on to Jesse Stone over the phone before they even meet him and in conjunction with the story's [... more]
$29.95
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School Days (Spenser Mysteries)
Not as bad as Potshot - but that isn't saying much: I've only read two Spenser novels and this one is only marginally better than the last one I read. Potshot (the other Spenser novel that I've read) was cartoonish; with a plot as sophisticated as an [... more]
$45.00
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Pastime
This is one of the Better Spensers: I've read most of Robert B. Parker's books, and this is definitely one of the better ones. This novel is technically a sequel to an earlier novel called EARLY AUTUMN, but you don't have to read that book to enjoy this [... more]
$19.95
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Sea Change (Jesse Stone Novels)
More like Sea Sickness: All of the women in this novel are never seen in any way other than sexual. Supposedly professional female police officers are coming on to Jesse Stone over the phone before they even meet him and in conjunction with the story's [... more]
$32.95
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Perchance to Dream (Sequel to Raymond Chandler's The Big ...
Sequel to "Big Sleep" 50 years later: fun and true to form Philip Marlowe !!: We really admire Parker for having the knowledge and creativity to "dream" up a new Philip Marlowe some fifty years after the original "Big Sleep" [... more]
$19.95
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Boston, All One Family
Contemporary Boston history preserved with distinction: The problem with photography of important figures is that the majority of the attempts either end up as images of people looking like static statues or, at the other extreme, Weegee rendered [... more]
$27.95
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Hundred-Dollar Baby
One of the Weaker Spensers: I've read nearly all the Spenser novels, and this is definitely one of the weaker ones. HUNDRED-DOLLAR BABY re-introduces April Kyle, the high-class prostitute last seen in TAMING A SEA HORSE. Kyle has never been a [... more]
$24.95
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Melancholy Baby: A Sunny Randall Novel
Amazon.com Review: Some of Robert B. Parker's most distinctive novels over the years (God Save the Child, Early Autumn, Ceremony, etc.) have centered on young people in trouble, so his return to that theme in Melancholy Baby is hardly a surprise. What's [... more]
$13.95
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Night Passage (Jesse Stone Novels)
Amazon.com Review: Fans often feel uneasy when the creator of a popular character ventures into new turf, and sometimes their trepidation is justified. But readers of Robert B. Parker's immensely popular Spenser series can breathe a sigh of relief: while [... more]
$21.95
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Death in Paradise (Parker, Robert B.)
Amazon.com Review: With assured confidence and a master's economy of means, Robert B. Parker, who is best known for his Spenser series, delivers one of his finest, most absorbing works yet. This third entry in the Jesse Stone series finds Stone--a former [... more]
$34.95
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