Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues A Jesse Stone Novel
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Biographical note
Robert B. Parker is world-renowned as an internationally bestselling author. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he completed a Ph.D. in English at Boston University. He began writing his Spenser novels while teaching at Boston's Northeastern University in 1971. In 1997 he won an Edgar for Best Novel for Promised Land, and was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2002. He passed away in January 2010.
Michael Brandman is uniquely qualified to carry the Jesse Stone series into the future. An award-winning producer of more than thirty motion pictures, he collaborated with Robert B. Parker on more than a dozen of them. Brandman produced three Parker-written Spenser films for A&E, and their collaboration continued with the Jesse Stone TV movies currently being broadcast on CBS.
<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>
Harlan Coben
Spenser is<b> a constant revelation </b>for even long-time Parker fans
Milwaukee Sentinel
<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>Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity </b><b> </b>
Chicago Sun
The<b> </b>sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today . . . <b>the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition </b>
Cincinnati Post
<b>Nobody does it better </b>
Publishers Weekly
Reading a Spenser novel is like a family reunion - it<b> makes one feel good </b>
Library Journal
'No one understands what makes Bob Parker's Jesse Stone tick better than Michael Brandman - and Michael is just the writer to carry Jesse into the future' Tom Selleck.
Tom Selleck
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Biographical note
Robert B. Parker is world-renowned as an internationally bestselling author. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he completed a Ph.D. in English at Boston University. He began writing his Spenser novels while teaching at Boston's Northeastern University in 1971. In 1997 he won an Edgar for Best Novel for Promised Land, and was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2002. He passed away in January 2010.
Michael Brandman is uniquely qualified to carry the Jesse Stone series into the future. An award-winning producer of more than thirty motion pictures, he collaborated with Robert B. Parker on more than a dozen of them. Brandman produced three Parker-written Spenser films for A&E, and their collaboration continued with the Jesse Stone TV movies currently being broadcast on CBS.