It is fall in
Paradise as Robert B. Parker's Colorblind: A Jesse Stone Novel by Reed Farrel Coleman begins. For
Police Chief Jesse Stone, it is a time of new beginnings. He is back from
alcohol rehab having been gone the last two months. His old house was sold back
during the summer and he has moved into a two-bedroom condo.
While
there has been quite a change in his personal life, life and crime continues on
in Paradise, Massachusetts as does politics. Biker gangs have been a
problem while Chief Stone has been gone. And the latest version of them seems
to be of the racist skinhead type. During a recent incident, things were said
to the newest member of the police department who is African American and it
has caused a little bit of internal strife. That was on top of the mood of some
of the local population which had an issue with the hiring.
In the
nearby town of Swan Harbor, they have a serious assault victim who may not be
alive much longer. The State Chief Homicide investigator, Brian Lundquist,
quietly suggested to Police Chief Forster that he ought to have Jesse Stone
come over and share his expertise. The woman has been sexually assaulted and
horribly beaten and the locals don’t have any detectives, let alone anyone that
is equipped to work the case now or when it soon becomes a murder case. That
isn’t the only reason Lundquist wanted Jesse Stone involved in the case.
At
first, Lundquist didn’t realize the victim was in the same shape as a victim
years ago when Jesse firsts started work in Paradise. A veteran of the Swan
Harbor police with 20 years plus did, Officer Drake Daniels, and said something
to his boss. Now Jesse will be poking around the fringes of the case while
Lundquist takes over on the behalf of the state.
Robert B. Parker's Colorblind: A Jesse
Stone Novel is the latest in the series and another very good read. Author
Reed Farrel Coleman has had a hard task since he took over the series several
years back. Breathing new life into the character while staying true to the
roots and flavor of Jesse Stone as well as the earlier books is no easy feat. Mr.
Coleman has constantly performed the task admirably and does so again with Robert B. Parker's Colorblind:
A Jesse Stone Novel.
Robert B. Parker's Colorblind: A Jesse Stone Novel
Reed Farrel Coleman
Thorndike
Press
September
2018
ISBN#
978-1-4328-5514-7
Large
Print Hardback (also available in audio, eBook, and regular print hardback formats)
505
Pages
$37.99
Material
supplied by the good folks of the Dallas Public Library System.
Kevin
R. Tipple ©2018
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