Night and Day

electronic resource

English language

Published 2009 by Penguin Group USA, Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-101-01601-5
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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 …

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A good page-turner, easy read but surprisingly melancholy

This is my second Robert Parker novel, the first one a Spenser book, and it shares the same terse banter, but without (almost) all the racial remarks (takes place in an almost all-white community, I assume). Maybe there could be happy medium. Anyway, the Jesse Stone character is surprisingly deep and tormented in an accessible way (surprising because I only know the character from being played by Tom Selleck, an I liked Magnum but he wasn't really an everyman) and also suffering from every-woman-in-this-town-is-throwing-themselves-at-me, probably an incurable disease considering the number of books in this series. But I'm interested enough in the soap opera aspects to want to read more.