Night and Day (A Jesse Stone Novel, #8)

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Synopsis
Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone confronts a town's darkest secrets in the shocking new novel from the New York Times' bestselling author and "America's greatest mystery writer" (The New York Sun). Things are getting strange in Paradise, Massachusetts. Police Chief Jesse Stone is called to the junior high school when reports of lewd conduct by the school's principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station. Ingersoll claims she was protecting the propriety of her students when she inspected each girl's undergarments in the locker room. Jesse would like nothing more than to see Ingersoll punished, but her high-powered attorney husband stands in the way. At the same time, the women of Paradise are faced with a threat to their sense of security with the emergence of a tormented voyeur, dubbed "The Night Hawk." Initially, he's content to peer through windows, but as times goes on, he becomes more reckless, forcing his victims to strip at gunpoint, then photographing them at their most vulnerable. And according to the notes he's sending to Jesse, he's not satisfied to stop there. It's up to Jesse to catch the Night Hawk, before it's too late.
Copyright:
2009

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
290 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780399155413
Publisher:
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Robert B. Parker
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Submitted By:
Liz Halperin
Proofread By:
Liz Halperin
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

Reviews

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This is one of the worst books by Robert B. Parker I've ever read. "Night and Day" is not part of the Spenser for Hire series, but a failed attempt to build a similar one. "Night and Day" is the 8th offering of the Jesse Stone novels, featuring a small town police chief, and his co-workers. Following the successful Spenser recipe, Parker packs 74 chapters into 289 pages. Many of those chapters aren't even a full 3 pages and only have a string of short phrases. The characters are flat, leaving the reader uninterested in their doings. The characters use the same sarcastic conversational style as in the Spenser series, but what is witty in Spenser is dull here. The plot lines are also flat: a Peeping Tom, the school principal looking at the girls' panties before a dance, and the background throughout the series: the police chief's relationship with alcohol and his ex-wife. The Peeping Tom line does pick up and become the basis for the book, but there wasn't any excitement: we're told almost at the start who the guilty party is. The final scenes were boring: the "take down plan" went exactly as planned. I'm left quoting an old hamburger advertisement, "Where's the beef?"