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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 initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be an 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 Harbor; not her very blond, very tan 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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons
- Publication dateFebruary 7, 2006
- Reading age18 years and up
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“A fast-paced fascinating mystery.”—The Providence Journal
“The complicated, all-too-human Jesse Stone [is] every bit as compelling, charismatic and resolute as [the] better-known, valiant Spenser.”—The Boston Herald
“Crackles with wisecracks.”—Forbes
“Parker is dead-on here...the story swirls from whodunit into an absorbing whydunit.”—Booklist
“Strong enough to rank near [Parker’s] best.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Worthy of the late John D. MacDonald.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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- ASIN : B000PDYW0Q
- Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons (February 7, 2006)
- Publication date : February 7, 2006
- Language : English
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- Print length : 314 pages
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Robert B. Parker (1932-2010) has long been acknowledged as the dean of American crime fiction. His novel featuring the wise-cracking, street-smart Boston private-eye Spenser earned him a devoted following and reams of critical acclaim, typified by R.W.B. Lewis' comment, "We are witnessing one of the great series in the history of the American detective story" (The New York Times Book Review). In June and October of 2005, Parker had national bestsellers with APPALOOSA and SCHOOL DAYS, and continued his winning streak in February of 2006 with his latest Jesse Stone novel, SEA CHANGE.
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Parker attended Colby College in Maine, served with the Army in Korea, and then completed a Ph.D. in English at Boston University. He married his wife Joan in 1956; they raised two sons, David and Daniel. Together the Parkers founded Pearl Productions, a Boston-based independent film company named after their short-haired pointer, Pearl, who has also been featured in many of Parker's novels.
Parker began writing his Spenser novels in 1971 while teaching at Boston's Northeastern University. Little did he suspect then that his witty, literate prose and psychological insights would make him keeper-of-the-flame of America's rich tradition of detective fiction. Parker's fictional Spenser inspired the ABC-TV series Spenser: For Hire. In February 2005, CBS-TV broadcast its highly-rated adaptation of the Jesse Stone novel Stone Cold, which featured Tom Selleck in the lead role as Parker's small-town police chief. The second CBS movie, Night Passage, also scored high ratings, and the third, Death in Paradise, aired on April 30, 2006.
Parker was named Grand Master of the 2002 Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America, an honor shared with earlier masters such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen.
Parker died on January 19, 2010, at the age of 77.
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In Sea Change, Jesse Stone has to solve the murder of an attractive, middle-aged woman who was found floating in the harbor of Paradise. The victim, Florence Horvath, turns out to be an out-of-towner from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Jesse will have to turn to Detective Kelly Cruz of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department for help on this one. While both of them work the case from their respective ends of the country, Jesse discovers that the victim may have come to Paradise for its annual Race Week with boaters arriving from all over the eastern seaboard to participate in and to watch the big racing event. This leads to the discovery of an amateur sex ring amongst some of the boaters, involving female teenagers from Paradise. As Jesse investigates the murder case, he must also deal with his battle to remain sober and with his ex-wife, Jenny, being back in his life once again and what that means to him emotionally. Before the book ends and the case is solved, Jesse's going to learn a lot about himself, his love for Jenny, and how people can treat others as inanimate objects for their own sexual gratification. It's not easy being a flawed hero, but Jesse does the best he can one day at a time.
Like the other novels by Robert Parker, Sea Change is a quick read. I picked it up and was finished in just a few hours. I consider that a compliment to Mr. Parker's craftsmanship as a writer. I have a number of novels on my shelf that I had to put down after only thirty pages because of outright boredom with the story line. I've never had that problem with anything Mr. Parker has written. His books are always pure fun to read with realistic dialogue that brings a true smile to one's face, characters that eventually become close friends to the reader, and a sense of style that few other writers are able to emulate. Sea Change is no different. It takes the character of Jesse Stone one step further in his life with a clearer understanding of what it means to be a human being and how to insure that justice for those who've been harmed by others is finally achieved. A very, very good read!
The mystery is only one part of the book, however. The other part deals with the on-going question of whether Jesse Stone and his ex-wife can successfully reconcile. To fully appreciate that part of the book, I recommend you read the first four books in the series first. At this point the series is like a long love story about Stone and his ex-wife, with the various mysteries thrown in to keep him busy. That's not to say that the mystery and crime elements aren't good, just that they only take up about 60% of any given book in the series.
One other note - Parker's Boston-based detective Spenser makes an unnamed cameo appearance in the book, in case you were wondering if the two series were related. I'm not as familiar with the Spenser novels, so there may be other crossover characters that I'm not aware of, but I do plan to work my way through that series eventually.
Just prior to the annual summer event in Paradise, Massachusetts called Boat Week, the body of a mid-thirties female washes up near the town wharf. During his investigation, Stone questions various people, including boat owners and bimbos, who all treat sex like ping pong games. The men are rich, the women out for fun. Jesse repeatedly notices that none of this resembles love, and, as he struggling himself to deal with his ex-wife's sexuality prior to them moving in together again, it saddens, even angers him a little. Not that our hero had been living the life of a Fransiscan monk, as one of his former brief flames relates.
As I was reading the book, it occurred to me that despite being a mystery writer, Parker spent a lot of time musing about love, how to find it, sustain it, enrich it and understand it. Those long conversations that took place between Spenser and Susan Silverman in the better known and much longer running series were essentially about their love for each other. Here, Jesse, trying to recover what he thought he had with his TV weather girl ex-wife Jenn, searches for some definitive understanding of his feelings. It doesn't matter that Jenn comes across in all the Jesse Stone books as an airhead. Susan Silverman would have driven me to drink, not because she was unfaithful, but because she was living on a higher plane, thought she was smarter than everybody else, and let you know it. But as Plutarch wrote in attempting to explain why Marc Antony left the scene of battle to chase after Cleopatra, fleeing when she sensed his troops werre losing, "The soul of a lover is in another person's body." You just wish Jesse had found and loved somebody like the Irish Catholic cop, Molly, married, a mother, faithful and well-grounded. She frankly, should have been spun off and given her own series of crimes to solve, although I have not read any of Parker's Sunny Randall books. But at least here, Jesse not only solves more than one crime, he understands himself better. And doesn't drink a drop of liquor through most of this tome.
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My only grumble with this Kindle book (Mr Parker didn't need to lose a star for this) is that the download appears to be in pale grey rather than the usual black. I 'turn' the page and the text is black for a moment, then fades to the gray. Apparently something to do with greyscale rendering, but it was very annoying, especially as I thought it was my Kindle messing it up!! But the story, five stars!


All of the Jessie Stone books have her running through them, sad really

