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Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot
Written by Reed Farrel Coleman
Narrated by James Naughton
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series.
It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and still longer since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a major league baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team at a hip New York city hotel, he is forced to grapple with his memories and regrets over what might have been.
Jesse left more behind him than unresolved feelings about the play that ended his baseball career. The darkly sensuous Kayla, his former girlfriend and current wife of an old teammate is there in New York, too. As is Kayla's friend, Dee, an otherworldly beauty with secret regrets of her own. But Jesse's time at the reunion is cut short when, in Paradise, a young woman is found murdered and her boyfriend, a son of one of the town's most prominent families, is missing and presumed kidnapped.
Though seemingly coincidental, there is a connection between the reunion and the crimes back in Paradise. As Jesse, Molly, and Suit hunt for the killer and for the missing son, it becomes clear that one of Jesse's old teammates is intimately involved in the crimes. That there are deadly forces working below the surface and just beyond the edge of their vision. Sometimes, that's where the danger comes from, and where real evil lurks. Not out in the light-but in your blind spot.
It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and still longer since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a major league baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team at a hip New York city hotel, he is forced to grapple with his memories and regrets over what might have been.
Jesse left more behind him than unresolved feelings about the play that ended his baseball career. The darkly sensuous Kayla, his former girlfriend and current wife of an old teammate is there in New York, too. As is Kayla's friend, Dee, an otherworldly beauty with secret regrets of her own. But Jesse's time at the reunion is cut short when, in Paradise, a young woman is found murdered and her boyfriend, a son of one of the town's most prominent families, is missing and presumed kidnapped.
Though seemingly coincidental, there is a connection between the reunion and the crimes back in Paradise. As Jesse, Molly, and Suit hunt for the killer and for the missing son, it becomes clear that one of Jesse's old teammates is intimately involved in the crimes. That there are deadly forces working below the surface and just beyond the edge of their vision. Sometimes, that's where the danger comes from, and where real evil lurks. Not out in the light-but in your blind spot.
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Reed Farrel Coleman
REED FARREL COLEMAN is a two-time Edgar Award nominee. He has also received the Macavity, Barry and Anthony Awards. To find out more visit: www.reedcoleman.com
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Reviews for Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is the first of Coleman's contributions to the Jesse Stone franchise. He made no attempt to emulate Parker's writing style, and this story is somewhat richer and more complex---certainly less dialog-driven---than either Parker or Brandman's were, but his Jesse is authentic. In Blind Spot, Jesse faces some very old demons---the loss of his baseball career and the girl he thought might be "the One" before an injury robbed him of the future he had planned. Lots of interesting characters here, a potential recurring love interest, and an alarming loose end that will lead us all by the nose into the next installment.November 2016
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Intensely disappointing is the only way I can describe my feelings toward this Jesse Stone novel. I was really enjoying the direction the previous "ghost" writer was taking the Jesse Stone character and to me it seemed to be in the same direction that Robert B. Parker was taking the character as well. Michael Brandman put his own unique advancement on the character, but it fit. In fact, it fit extremely well.
As a continuation of the story this novel and how it depicts a completely alcoholic and unsympathetic Jesse Stone is totally unbelievable if this is supposed to be in chronological order. It simply does not fit at all. Maybe had this been the second or third book in the series where Stone just couldn't shake off the booze it might have worked. At this point it just is a complete head scratcher. It is a shame nobody in Parker's estate seems to have thrown the red flag and had the author change the characters and location and make it about another character so it doesn't stain and mar what to this point has been a very enjoyable series.
And even the other characters like Molly Crane and Suitcase Simpson are unrecognizable. This book shows no respect for the series. And it frankly made me angry reading it. It was an unenjoyable experience.
As a standalone novel, this would have been an okay story. I thought the Mr. Peepers character was so absurd as to ruin the book, even if it weren't a Jesse Stone novel. I do like to have characters that even if they are over the top, are at least somewhat believable. Mr. Peepers is not.
I have read every single one of Robert Parker's books and every single one of the continuations. I really enjoy the characters and Parker's style which other authors writing the continuations of the series mostly get. This author obviously does not.
Please do not publish the clearly set up sequel to this book. I DO NOT WANT TO READ IT. THIS IS NOT JESSE STONE. IT'S AN IMPOSTER. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Robert B. Parker’s Blind Spot by Reed Farrel Coleman would be a great to take on a plane or trip because gets your attention and keeps it to the last page. Police Jesse Stone used to work for the LAPD but his addiction to alcohol got him in trouble with his job. So now he is the Police Chief of a small town close to Boston, Paradise. He is one of those people who carries a large question mark on his back. He was in a minor league for baseball but an injury nixed his chance for the major leagues. He had re-played the accident that ruined his shoulder many times. Now he was still fighting an addiction to alcohol and often loosing. He got invited to baseball team reunion by a player, Vic Prado who had become a star in the major leagues. Jessie really didn’t want to go but he had some issues to work through and wanted to face up to them and work them out. While he was at the reunion, he got a call about a beautiful young girl being brutally murdered in a house of a son of a rich and prominent man in Paradise. Ben, the “good kid” of this family was with the murdered girl and was either the killer or was kidnapped for ransom. All this is connected to the reunion and to a mob leader. There is payback, redemption, and excitement in this novel.I love the way the characters were done. Now I am hooked and want to read more. I was very sad to lay this book down for even a moment. This is entertainment at its best.I highly recommend this book to all mystery lovers.Even though I won this Advance Reading Copy at FirstReads and received it from the publisher that did not influence my thoughts or feelings in the review.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Much Better. Michael Branden was a poor choice to continue writing the Jesse Stone novels. We're finally given a bit of a background reason for Molly's sudden switch from completely loving and playful banter to the somewhat coldhearted person she is in the branden books.
While this piece of Jesse does feel more like Jesse back in book 2 or three, you can see why these particular events might have thrown him for quite a bit of loop.
I'm interested in seeing what happens the next book, but I'm sure quite a few fans will be lost with whatever will happen next with Jen. I also didn't care for Coleman just tossing out the cat that Brandman gave him...Jesse needed something else. All of the baseball references in this book were needed...and it really felt like all of that was missing in Brandman's sets. It was also nice to see Dix come back and Healy acting a lot more like Parker's Healy. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is way to wordy and doesn't have the snappy dialog I grown accustomed to reading in Parkers books. At least in Blind Spot, Coleman does not carry the Jesse Stone tradition on as well as Ace Adkins does in the Spenser books. This was a disappointed read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A decent effort but I would have liked to see more of Suit and Molly.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While at a reunion of minor league baseball team in NYC, Molly calls and tells Chief Jesse Stone of a murder of a teenage girl in Paradise. Did the teenage boy do it or has he been kidnapped for ransom? Strangely a couple of people from the reunion show up in Paradise two days later. Are they involved. The boy's father is wealthy but hiding things and attempting to bully Jesse. Jesse makes a bad negotiation with Gino in the end.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a page-turning, entertaining read. If you enjoy stories of mobsters, crooks, small town cops and secret agents, then this one is for you. There were moments when I found the action had stalled, but all-in-all I would recommend Mr. Coleman's work to thriller/mystery lovers. My thanks to the author and Goodreads for a complimentary copy of this work.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This has been one of my favorite Jees Stone novels. It moved fast and it is nice getting to know more and more about Jess. Keep this series going.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blind Spot by Robert Parker/ Reed ColemanLove this series and I can just picture this as a movie being played by Tom Selleck as Jessie Stone.This one involves a woman who was killed at one of the mansions and we are given clues to try to figure out who really killed her.There is another story during this where an old friend shows sexual interest in Jesse and she has ulterior motives to gain information from him for someone.Love the twists and turns.I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5AUTHOR: Coleman, Reed FarrelTITLE: Robert B. Parker's Blind SpotDATE READ: 01/27/16RATING: 4.5/B+GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS Crime Fiction / 2014 / Putnam / 339 pgs SERIES/STAND-ALONE: # 13 Jesse StoneCHARACTERS Jesse Stone/ Police Chief of Paradise, MA TIME/PLACE: Present, Paradise, MA FIRST LINES There was no taking it back now, no do-overs. Never. He had said yes, so he was going.COMMENTS: This is my 1st Jesse Stone and I want to read the rest of the stories. I have read some (need to catch up ) of the Spenser books and was very pleased w/ Reed Farrel Coleman continuing Robert B Parker's series … but expected to be since I've not read a book of his that isn't well done. In this outing Jesse travels down to Boston for a reunion -- the gathering is for guys from his Triple A team. An injury cut his baseball short & he never made it to the majors. This reunion is put together by his former roommate who did go on to the majors and also married Jessie's old girlfriend. Jessie has to leave Boston because of a murder of an 18 yr old college girl at the home of a prominent Paradise citizen and also the kidnapping of the youngest son. There is a link between the baseball reunion and these crimes…
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Take away the requisite sex scenes, the bad language, and the title and cover which have nothing to do with the story and what do you have left? No much. The real Robert Parker died too soon.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Of all Robert Parker’s creations I like the Jesse Stone series the best. A couple of authors have attempted to continue the series, including Michael Brandman and now Reed Farrel Coleman, author of the Moe Prager series. I haven’t tried that series but will. I know some people disagree, but I think Coleman has better captured Jesse than Brandman. The interaction between Molly and Jesse is spot on.We get a little more back story on what happened to Jesse in the minor leagues as he agrees to go to NY for a reunion with his old teammates at the invitation of Vic, the player who stole Kayla, Jesse’s girlfriend following his injury. Seems Vic needs Jesse’s help on a matter, but before he can reveal what it might be, Jesse has to return to Paradise where a girl has been murdered; one that involves Vic (perhaps a bit too coincidentally.) And the girl Vic had brought along as “entertainment” for Jesse turns out to be -- well, you’ll just have to read the book to find out. The only thing I didn’t like much was the last couple of paragraphs. That kind of open-ended contrivance seems trite.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A murder back home in Paradise, MA forces Police Chief Jesse Stone to cut short his trip to his minor league baseball team reunion in New York, organized by his former roommate, Vic Prado. Upon arriving home, he learns that Ben Salter, son of a wealthy local investment banker is missing and his girlfriend murdered. Ben is an unlikely suspect and appears the murder was collateral damage. Assuming, therefore, Ben was kidnapped but puzzled by the lack of a ransom note, Stone believes the elder Salter knows more than he is revealing.Oddly, Prado, his wife Kayla (Stone’s former girlfriend in his pre-injury days) and Kayla’s friend, Dee, who live in Arizona, also travel to Paradise. While Jesse and Dee fell for each other in New York, in Paradise he senses she is hiding something. Prado, the murder, Dee all disturb Stone, but he cannot pinpoint exactly why.Mixed in with all of this is the notion, put forth by one of Stone’s old teammates, that Stone’s injury was intentionally caused by Prado to enhance his chances of making the major leagues and getting the girl.Spenser and Jesse Stone fans will enjoy Blind Spot, this thirteenth installment, after Damned if You Do. Like Spenser, Stone is a man of honor who feels he must speak for the dead and downtrodden. Coleman’s writing mimics Parker’s with short chapters, snappy repartee and just enough action. However, I didn’t like the ending at all. It seemed hastily put together, sort of like Coleman ran out of ideas and had to end the book. It is undoubtedly a set up for another series installment.I’ll tell you the truth. I used to love the Spenser books until they got too mushy and too philosophical and some of them veered away from Boston. I also liked the first few Jesse Stone books, but stopped reading them after a while for exactly the same reason. With Reed Farrel Coleman, who I really like as an author, I’m willing to give the series another chance. Blind Spot was an adequate reintroduction…not great, not terrible. Adequate.