Stone Cold (Jesse Stone Series, Book #4) by Robert B. Parker
Stone Cold (Jesse Stone Series, Book #4) by Robert B. Parker
A man takes his dog out for a run on the beach, only to be discovered hours later with two holes in his chest. A woman drives to the grocery store, only to be found dead behind her shopping cart. A commuter takes a shortcut home from the train, but never makes it back to his house.
Hunting down a serial killer is difficult and dangerous in any town, but in a town like Paradise, Massachusetts, where the selectmen and the media add untold pressures, police chief Jesse Stone feals considerable heat. Already walking an emotional tightrope, he stumbles: he's spending too much time with the bottle -- and with his ex-wife -- neither of which helps him, or the case. And the harder these outside forces push against him, the more Jesse retreats into himself, convinced -- despite all the odds -- that it's up to him alone to stop the killing.
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS, SOFTCOVER, 2003
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.