Michael Brandman was a perfect writer to take over the series; he was deeply involved in producing the Jesse Stone movies starring Tom Selleck. One of the first things Brnadman did was to move Jesse into the house that he occupies in the movies. I thought that was a nice touch mostly because I came to Jesse Stone via the movies.
Brandman was able to take up Parker's style of writing with seeming little effort. The dialog was perfect and the narrative was in keeping with Parker's own.
But was the book any good?
Yep.
Jessee is confronted with multiple events; there is a beautiful promoter who wants to set up a rock concert festival in Paradise, there is a rash of cars being stolen with one ending in murder and, unknown to Jesse, he's being stalked by an ex-con who he arrested in LA during the period he was a drunk on the job.
I loved how the author was able to balance the mundane events of being a small town cop (sorry, chief of police) with the extraordinary events of mob crime and psycho killers on the loose.
I am so happy that Jesse Stone is such capable hands.
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| Michael Brandman |
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| Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone |
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| Robert B Parker |
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