No Exit Press - Sea Change by Robert B Parker

ABOUT THE BOOK

A Jesse Stone Novel

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When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it at first appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be a difficult and emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida; she also had a penchant for steamy sex and was an enthusiastic participant in a video depicting the same. Somehow the combination of her past and present got her killed, but no one is talking - not the crew of the Lady Jane, the Fort Lauderdale yacht moored in Paradise harbour; nor her very blonde, very tanned twin sisters, Corliss and Claudia; and not her curiously affectless parents, living out a sterile retirement in a Miami high rise. But someone - Jesse - has to speak for the dead, even if it puts him in harm's way.

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New York Times Bestseller List - February 2006

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR SEA CHANGE

'...timing and pace are all. Parker knows what he's about, and Sea Change is a cracker. '
- Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph [read the full review]

'Parker writes old-time, stripped-to-the-bone, hard-boiled school of Chandler...His novels are funny, smart and highly entertaining...There's no writer I'd rather take on an aeroplane'
- Sunday Telegraph [read the full review]

'If Spenser is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity...you want to cheer.'
- New York Times Book Review

'In Sea Change glorious harbor scenes of sailboats and yachts gathered for Race Week are tarnished by the ugly crimes Jesse is investigating — the statutory rapes of local girls lured aboard the yachts by dirty old men from Florida and the murder of a woman involved in procuring the victims.'
- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times [read the full review]

'Stone is a work in progress whose following is likely to increase as he continues to grow.'
- Publishers Weekly [read the full review]

'Parker's old sense of place and lovely, spare prose...It's vintage Parker.'
- Margaret Cannon, Globe & Mail [read the full review]

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR ROBERT B PARKER

'Robert B Parker's Spenser is one of the best private detectives in fiction '
- Sunday Telegraph

'Parker packs more meaning into a whispered "yeah" than most writers can pack into a page'
- Sunday Times

'Why Robert Parker's not better known in Britain is a mystery. His best series featuring Boston-based PI Spenser is a triumph of style and substance. '
- Daily Mirror

'Robert B Parker is one of the greats of the American hard-boiled genre'
- Peter Guttridge, The Guardian

'Nobody does it better than Parker...'
- The Sunday Times

'Parker's dialogue is always cutting and laugh out loud funny...'
- Donna Leon, Sunday Times

Sea Change by Robert B Parker

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Sea Change

by Robert B Parker