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Jesse Stone, Police Chief in the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts, is faced with a local school principal mistreating her female chargers and a voyeur whose activities soon start to escalate, forcing his victims to strip at gunpoint and then photographing them. Jesse has to deal with these cases while at the same handling the departure of his lover Jenn to New York. There are times when a reviewer (well this one anyway!) is absolutely stuck for something to say; on such occasions my own remedy is to go for a much lengthier plot summary than usual. However in the case of this book not only do I have almost nothing to say, but it is impossible to expand the plot summary because there isn't any more plot! No - the couple of sentences above cover it. It is pretty obvious who the voyeur is from some way out and so the book becomes a kind of slow-motion chase sequence. Anything else? Anything? Well it is quite well-written in that spare mannered style which some people really like. There is quite a bit of cod psychology. A lot of dialogue. And that really is it. Presumably there are devotees of Robert B. Parker, and indeed the Stone series of which this is the eighth. I can only say that the charm completely escaped me and the extreme paucity of plot and story mean that I would be irate if I had paid for NIGHT AND DAY.
Reviewed by Nick Hay, October 2009
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