A Jesse Stone Novel

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.

'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

'...timing and pace are all. Parker knows what he's about, and Sea Change is a cracker'Sam Leith,Daily Telegraph

'funny, smart and highly entertaining' Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph



Robert B Parker was the best-selling author of over 60 books, including Small Vices, Sudden Mischief, Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, Potshot, Widows Walk, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise, Death in Paradise, Family Honor, Perish Twice, Shrink Rap, Stone Cold, Melancholy Baby, Back Story, Double Play, Bad Business, Cold Service, Sea Change, School Days and Blue Screen. He died in 2010 at the age of 77.



'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'



'...timing and pace are all. Parker knows what he's about, and Sea Change is a cracker'



'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'



'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'



'Stone is a work in progress whose following is likely to increase as he continues to grow'