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Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the Jesse Stone novels, the acclaimed Virgil Cole / Everett Hitch westerns, and the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010.If Spencer is the invincible knight,<b> the timeless hero of American detective fiction</b>, then Jesse Stone is <b>the flawed hero of the moment</b>, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity
New York Times
<b>Tougher, stronger, better educated</b>, and far <b>more amusing</b> than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer
Boston Globe
When it comes to detective novels, <b>90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it</b>
Harlen Coben
<b>One of the great series in the history of the detective story </b>
New York Times Book Review
<b>Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin </b>
Boston Observer
<b>The legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition </b>
Cincinnati Post
<b>Nobody does it better </b>
Publishers Weekly
'If Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jess Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity' New York Times Book Review.
New York Times
'… deftly sketched characters … his use of genre material is always fresh. He demonstrates his continued ability to write well-constructed and literate works of detective fiction' Times Literary Supplement.
Times Literary Supplement