If you have been
paying any attention at all you know about the Opioid crisis and the fact that
the war on drugs has been a colossal and expensive failure. Author Reed Farrel
Coleman uses that common knowledge as the background for The Bitterest Pill: A Jessie Stone
Novel.
The opioid crisis has made it to the coastal region of Paradise,
Massachusetts. When the legal drugs run out, those desperate have to turn to
heroin to get their fix. That can have tragic and disastrous consequences. Local
student and cheerleader Heather Mackey has been found dead in the bedroom of
her home thanks to a heroin overdose. Clearly, she had to have gotten the drugs
from somewhere and the most obvious place would by way of somebody, at her
school, Paradise High School.
The end user is just the tip of the iceberg. Somewhere and hidden
in the shadows are the folks pulling strings and make money off of addiction
and death. While Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone and his team work to uncover
the bosses, the bosses and others work to obstruct and kill off all venues of
investigation by any means necessary.
The latest book in this series is another good if depressing read.
Plenty of facts about the drug problem in this country are interwoven into the
fictional storylines as work in The Bitterest Pill: A Jesse Stone Novel.
For those of us who have battled our own addictions to pain killers and alcohol
while dealing with chronic pain and more, much of this read will ring very true.
As one would expect from this author, the book is another solidly good read
well worth your time.
The Bitterest Pill: A Jesse Stone Novel
Reed Farrrel Coleman
Thorndike Press (Gale, a Cengage Company)
2019
ISBN# 978-1-4328-6858-1
Large Print Hardback
475 Pages
Large print material came from the Lakewood Branch of the Dallas
Public Library System.
Kevin R. Tipple © 2019
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2 comments:
I really liked Robert B. Parker's writing. Does Reed Farrel Coleman's work have the same feel as Parker's?
I think so. I think he is also evolving the characters, especially Jesse, and I see that as a good thing.
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