High Profile (Jesse Stone Novels Book 6) (utgåvan 2007)

Enjoyable read, but the Jenn and Jesse thing is getting really old. Just dump her, already. ( )

A Jesse Stone Who-Dun-It ( )

Paradise is a tiny town in coastal Massachusetts that has rarely seen murders until Jesse appeared. He appears to have brought the "Curse of the Ages." Every year there are serial murders, bodies dropping dead left and right, in very bizarre circumstances. They've barely recovered from last year when they find both a man hung from a tree and a pregnant woman lying in a dumpster. Poor Jesse is just getting the basics set on these when his ex-wife Jenn calls - she's been raped, and she wants Jesse at her side 24/7.

Jesse is a flawed character. He tries very hard to change. I think my main issue is that his flaw involves "stay with a harmful person even when you know it's harmful, because you call the obsession love'" That bugs me a great deal. Overall I do love the Jesse Stone novels! side note...Tom Selleck is the absolute perfect one for the DVD's also. ( )

This is the sixth novel by Robert B. Parker in the Jesse Stone series about the police chief of fictional Paradise, Massachusetts. Parker’s forte is witty persiflage and fast paced action. His weakness (in my opinion) is a kind of loopy Freudian approach to relationships between men and women.

The main plot of this book is pretty good, featuring the murder of a prominent radio talk show host. The badinage between Jesse and his staff (Suitcase Simpson and Molly) is vintage Parker. However, I just can’t buy the interaction between the ultimate killer and his girlfriend. Even worse is Jesse’s continued devotion to his unfaithful estranged wife. Parker can make her pretty, but he can’t make her interesting, let alone lovable, especially in light of Jesse’s relationship with the not quite as pretty, but much more interesting detective, Holly Randal.

This one is a good murder mystery, but the romantic subplots are so unbelievable I was disappointed with the book as a whole.

(JAB) ( )

The story was probably a typical Jesse Stone, which means this should have been a 3 star book. Instead, it was too irritating to listen to due to all the "He said", "She said" that ruled every conversation. It's nice to know who is talking, but they were in almost EVERY single sentence of dialog. Worse, 'said' was used when obviously 'asked' should have been. "How are you doing," he said. NO!!!

There were some other issues with obvious points being talked up, but those I could forgive. I don't expect perfect writing in an obvious series writer like Parker. From my friends' reviews, I have my suspicions that Random House or the reader (who was good) tossed these 'said's in. I can't imagine any editor who graduated elementary school would have left them all in.

Highly disappointed!

Anyone who has read the print version: Can you tell me if they're an artifact of the audio version only? ( )