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Overview

Family ties prove deadly in the brilliant new Jesse Stone novel from New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker.

The body in the trunk was just the beginning.

Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beauti­ful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also happens to be Rebecca's twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach.

Stressed by the case, his failed relationship with his ex-wife, and his ongoing battle with the bottle, Jesse needs something to keep him from spinning out of control. When private investigator Sunny Randall comes into town on a case, she asks for Jesse's help. As their professional and personal relationships become intertwined, both Jesse and Sunny realize that they have much in common with both their victims and their suspects-and with each other.

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When they aren't working their separate cases (the cops have to contend with two mob murders), Jesse and Sunny flirt like mad, sharing morsels of Parker's droll dialogue like lovers feeding each other chocolate truffles. Love runs rampant in this story—young love, parental love, marital love, friendly love, lovey-dovey love, even noxious perversions of love that are downright criminal. Hotbed of passion that it's turned out to be, Paradise seems a very good place to take our leave of Jesse.
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Bestseller Parker's enjoyable ninth novel featuring Paradise, Mass., police chief Jesse Stone (after Night and Day), focuses on Stone's deepening connection with PI Sunny Randall, the star of her own series (Spare Change, etc.). Both Jesse and Sunny are still recovering from failed relationships, and Parker does a nice job of integrating their separate therapy sessions (in Sunny's case, with Susan Silverman, the significant other of Parker's best-known detective, Spenser) with two criminal investigations. The parents of 18-year-old Cheryl DeMarco ask Sunny for help in getting Cheryl out of a religious cult, while Stone probes the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski, a mob soldier whose boss, Reggie Galen, is the next-door neighbor of another gangster. Neither case is particularly compelling on its own, but they effectively serve as plot devices for the main characters to understand more about themselves and each other. (Feb.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780399156236
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 2/23/2010
  • Pages: 277
  • Sales rank: 562,022
  • Series: Jesse Stone Series, #9
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker
Featuring rapid-fire dialogue and spicy characters, Robert B. Parker's books are top-shelf reading for fans of detective crime novels. His Spenser series is several titles strong and an established classic; lately Parker has raised the stakes with two additional series (one featuring private eye Sunny Randle, the other featuring police chief Jesse Stone) that may eventually rival his beloved Boston P.I.

Biography

Robert B. Parker began as a student of hard-boiled crime writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but when he became a crime writer himself, he was one of the rare contemporary authors to be considered on par with his predecessors. The Spenser series, featuring a Boston-based ex-boxer and ex-cop, is one of the genre's most respected and popular fixtures.

Noted for their sharp dialogue and fine character development, the Spenser books carry on a tradition while updating it, particularly in giving its hero two strong alter egos in Hawk, a black friend and right-hand man; and Susan Silverman, Spenser's psychologist love interest. Parker's inclusion of other races and sexual persuasions (several of his novels feature gay characters, a sensibility strengthened in Parker through his sons, both of whom are gay) give a more modern feel to the cases coming into Spenser's office.

The Spenser series, which began with 1973's The Godwulf Manuscript, has an element of toughness that suits its Boston milieu; but it delves just as often into the complex relationship between Silverman and Spenser, and the interplay between the P.I. and Hawk.

By the late ‘80s, Parker had acquired such a reputation that the agent for Raymond Chandler's estate tapped him to finish the legend's last book, Poodle Springs. It was a thankless mission bound to earn criticism, but Parker carried off the task well, thanks to his gift for to-the-point writing and deft plotting. "Parker isn't, even here, the writer Chandler was, but he's not a sentimentalist, and he darkens and deepens Marlowe," the Atlantic concluded. In 1991, Parker took a second crack at Chandler with the Big Sleep sequel Perchance to Dream.

Parker took other detours from Spenser over the years. In 1999, Family Honor introduced Sunny Randall, a female Boston private eye Parker created with actress Helen Hunt in mind. Two years earlier, he introduced L.A.-to-New England cop transplant Jesse Stone in Night Passage. He also authored four bestselling Westerns featuring Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, a few young adult books, as well as several stand-alone novels that were well-received by his many fans.

Parker died suddenly in January 2010 while at home at his desk, working on a book. The cause was a heart attack. He was seventy-seven.

Good To Know

Parker's thesis in graduate school was a study of the private eye in literature that centered on Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Ross MacDonald. Critics would later put him in the same category as those authors.

Parker's main hero is named for Edmund Spenser, the 16th-century author of The Faerie Queene.

Parker had a hand in writing the scripts for some television adaptations of Spenser books starring Robert Urich, who also played Spenser in the ABC series from 1985-88. Urich suffered a battle with cancer and passed away in 2002, but adaptations continue to be made for A&E, starring Joe Mantegna. Parker approved of the new actor, telling the New York Times: ''I looked at Joe and I saw Spenser."

According to a profile in the New York Times, Parker met his wife Joan when the two were toddlers at a birthday party. The two reconnected as freshmen at Colby College and eventually had two sons. They credit the survival of their marriage to a house split into separate living spaces, so that the two can enjoy more independent lives than your average husband and wife.

Parker told fans in a 1999 Barnes & Noble.com chat that he thought his non-series historical novel All Our Yesterdays was "the best thing I've ever written."

Parker had a small speaking part in the 1997 A&E adaptation of Small Vices. How does he have time to write his Spenser books, plus the other series and the adaptation stuff? "Keep in mind, it takes me four or five months to write a novel, which leaves me a lot of time the rest of the year," he told Book magazine. "I don't like to hang around."

    1. Date of Birth:
      September 17, 1932
    2. Place of Birth:
      Springfield, Massachusetts
    1. Date of Death:
      January 18, 2010
    2. Place of Death:
      Cambridge, Massachusetts
    1. Education:
      B.A. in English, Colby College, 1954; M.A., Ph. D. in English, Boston University, 1957, 1971
    2. Website:
      http://robertbparker.net/
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  • Posted May 10, 2010

    The Last of Jesse Stone?

    Jesse Stone is back! This time he's dealing with two mob-connected corpses, two over-sexed mob wives, two self-absorbed parents whose daughter has taken up with a cult, and a Polish father out to avenge his son's death. Sunny Randall comes to town to help him along and, in the meantime, they help each other start to put their exes behind them.

    The dialog is typical Parker - the kind of quick returns that we all wish we could think of when we need them. Jesse is still dealing with his internal struggle to drink or not to drink, and he turns to conversations with the photo of his hero Ozzie Smith to try to sort it all out.

    The plot is a bit convoluted, the characters are complex, and the small-town police in Paradise are still able to rise to the occasion of big-city crime - all the elements that make the Jesse Stone series so much fun to read. As they work together to keep lids on their lives and the town, Jesse and Sonny grow closer and at the end of this installment they seem headed to greater things; maybe even a relationship like Spencer and Dr. Silverman (who makes an appearance here, too) have.

    But alas, we'll never know. Sadly, this is probably the final chapter in Jesse Stone's story, since Parker passed away January 18th. His pithy, delightful style will be greatly missed, and Jesse and Sunny will remain in limbo. But Parkers' fans will re-read the Spenser, Stone, Randall, and western series for years to come.

    Thanks, Parker!

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  • Posted March 27, 2010

    Parker does it again

    As usual Parker wrote an entertaining book. His characters are flawed enough that they are believable and you want to come back time and time again. If you like Spenser you will like Stone. Sadly with Parker passing we will be miss all the friends he gave us. But like other great writers his books will be around forever. And we will never forget him. I hope he has a few books in the ;pipeline.

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  • Posted May 13, 2010

    Jesse Stone

    I really enjoy these books of Jesse Stone. I also watch all the movies.
    If you like to get to know the people in the books, contuine reading them all.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 5, 2010

    Best of the Jesse Stone Novels!

    Great Reading and I highly recommend.

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  • Posted May 5, 2010

    The Final Jesse Stone Novel Is A Good One

    Sadly there won't be anymore Jesse Stone novels due to the passing of Robert B. Parker, but he left us a good one. Jesse's life path isn't completely resolved, but he's come a long way since book one, and is headed in a good direction.

    The body of a mob tough guy is found stuffed in the trunk of his car. Jesse investigates the man's relationship to two local "ex" mob figures who live next door to each other, and are married to identical twins. The "split image" of the title refers to the woman, and they play an important part in this story.

    Meanwhile, another Parker character with her own series, Sunny Randall, is in town looking for a runaway girl at a commune. She and Jesse work together briefly, and then get together. Working with their respective therapists, they discover they each have traits similar to those of their victims. An interesting twist.

    As always, Parker's characters are strongly written as people one can identify with. This is very good story, the psychological profiles are excellent, and Jesse resolves his issues with his ex-wife and seems able to move on.

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  • Posted May 1, 2010

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    Love Jesse & Parker

    Really like this character. The writing style keeps me engaged and I can't put the books down.

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  • Posted April 21, 2010

    A fast easy reading escape.

    Competes with James Patterson for easy reading, a great story and likable characters.

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  • Posted April 20, 2010

    Good series.

    I have enjoyed all of his books. This has two of his best detectives.

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  • Posted April 17, 2010

    Always good from Robert B.Parker

    Typical quik wit and moving plot. Jesse Stone is one of his better, indepth characters. Twists with humor. Too bad there won't be anymore from him.

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  • Posted April 17, 2010

    Good read

    Parker is always a fast and good read. The dialogue is the backbone of his books and is never more so than in this one.

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  • Posted April 12, 2010

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    Parker turned formulaic into familiar and the familiar into comforting.

    Still a little sad at the death of Robert B. Parker, so, as a form of tribute to him, I thought I would try a little experiment with his new (and final) Jesse Stone novel -- "Split Image." Building off the comment I made in my review of his recent Spenser outing, "The Professional," and as a play with the "Split Image" title, I thought I would read "Split Image" and his 2008, "Stranger in Paradise" simultaneously.

    I wanted to test the precision of the plotting and the consistency of character. First, I read a couple of chapters of "Stranger..." and then went to "Split..." for several chapters and back and forth through the two books. Amazing. They were a split image. Not only did they share Parker's Hemingwayesque sparseness but they were seamless in character, locale and plot.

    Parker turned formulaic into familiar and the familiar into comforting. He is a real joy to read -- even two at a time -- and will be missed. I think there is one last Spenser in the pipeline -- "Painted Ladies" due in October 2010. So, all is not lost, yet.

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  • Posted April 10, 2010

    Jesse Stone is very enjoyable on audio books!

    All three of us enjoy listening to Jesse Stone on audio: but we enjoy most of Parker's work. Jesse is a police chief we would be glad to have in our town: he is human, dedicated to doing his job well, and we cheer his efforts to that end. We will miss Robert Parker and all of the characters he has created because we have purchased most of his adult series books over the years, and sampled one or two of his children's books.

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  • Posted March 30, 2010

    Another great Jesse Stone Story

    If you like the Jesse Stone series, you will like this book. Now that most of the series has been made into movies I always picture the book characters as they appeared in the films. It's a one day read that leaves you feeling good.

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  • Posted March 29, 2010

    JamBLang

    I luv Jesse Stone mysteries because I can see Tom Selleck everytime I come to a part w/ Jesse & I luv how Tom plays Jesse. Haven't read any other of Parker's writing but I do--everytime he puts out a Jesse Stone novel...JBL

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  • Posted March 29, 2010

    A Great Read

    As always the Jesse Stone books are so good and I'm glad that he finally got together with Sunny Randall . . . for always?? Who knows, because the author, Robert Parker, has passed away. This one was "Touching" because I knew that it would be the last. I have all of the Jesse Stone books and some of Sunny Randall. I will read them again and again.

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  • Posted March 27, 2010

    Great Book

    I loved this book as I do all Robert Parker books. His death was a loss to the publishing world.

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  • Posted March 27, 2010

    okay not what i expected

    this book seemed like a made for tv movie. one where you say, it was 90 minutes but should have been 60. was not suspenseful. seemed to be plodding along.

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  • Posted March 27, 2010

    I loved the characters.

    I liked the characters better than the book. Overall, the book was okay.

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    Posted March 27, 2010

    Split Image--good book

    Saddens me to know this is the end. Have read every Robert Parker book.
    A great writer taken from us too quickly. He will be missed

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  • Posted March 27, 2010

    Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone breaks through in this final, touching novel.

    How appropriate it is that Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone experiences, perhaps, his long awaited psychological and emotional break through in SPLIT IMAGE, the last novel penned before Mr. Parker's unexpected death.

    If we are to be denied any more novels about Jesse, Jen, Molly, Suit and the ever revolving cast of marvelous characters who populate and wander in and out of coastal town of Paradise, MA at least their creator, Robert B. Parker, has left them under the caring and watchful eye of an apparently improved Chief of Police Jesse Stone.

    In SPLIT IMAGE Parker does more than hint at Chief Stone 's finally accepting his part in the dysfunctional co-dependent relationship between he and his ex-wife, Jen. Parkers seems to provide Jesse without not only a way out of his downward alcoholic spiral, but fortifies him with a chance at romance and commitment in the person of Boston PI Sunny Randall, past lover, and a woman who has exemplifies the fact that in our pain "we are not alone."

    In Alcoholics Anonymous it is predicted that "more shall be revealed."

    In Paradise the same holds true, except, alas, it appears we will not be there as witnesses.

    Good night, Robert B. Parker. Thank you.

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