Robert B. Parkers Damned If You Do, Michael Brandman
Robert B. Parkers Damned If You Do, Michael Brandman
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Robert B. Parker's Damned If You Do
A Jesse Stone Novel

Author: Michael Brandman

Narrator: James Naughton

Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2013

Synopsis

The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn’t exactly beautiful, but she’d tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead.

Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn’t know her name. Whoever she is, she didn’t deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it’s over.

About The Author

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch Westerns, as well as 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.Michael Brandman is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice and Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues. An award-winning producer of more than thirty motion pictures, he collaborated with Robert B. Parker for years on movie projects, Spenser TV movies, and the Jesse Stone series of TV movies starring Tom Selleck. He worked on the adaptations of Stone Cold, Night Passage, Death in Paradise, and Sea Change, and wrote and produced the original screenplays for Thin Ice, No Remorse, Innocents Lost, and Benefit of the Doubt. He lives in California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on November 27, 2021

This 12th addition to Robert B. Parker's 'Jesse Stone' series is written by Michael Brandman. In this book, the Police Chief investigates the death of a prostitute. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** Jesse Stone is the Police Chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, a small city near Boston. As the s......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on October 01, 2019

I hate to see anybody lose their job, but I understand why Michael Brandman was replaced as the writer of this series. Small town police chief Jesse Stone has two big problems. First, after a young female prostitute is murdered in a seedy motel Jesse has to first identify her, and then try to find he......more

Goodreads review by Jack on March 05, 2024

3 Stars. When summarizing Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone's character, don't forget that he is often a crusader for justice. Noble, but others in his circle may not support his efforts. They can be strongly discouraging. There's no better novel in this great little series by Robert B. Parker and c......more

Goodreads review by Larry on March 04, 2014

The Jesse Stone novels were pretty pedestrian even when Robert B. Parker wrote them. Michael Brandman, who has written the screen plays for the television movies, is neither an improvement nor a diminishment of Parker's work. (Note: The TV movies are pretty good, largely due to the presence of Tom S......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on August 11, 2016

I have always preferred the Jesse Stone series over Spenser and was sad that the series never blossomed into many more books. The relationship between Jesse, the town council, and Suitcase and Molly was fun and often led to humorous exchanges between them. After Parker died the series was taken over......more

Quotes

Praise for Robert B. Parker

“Not for nothing is Parker regarded as the reigning champion of the American tough-guy detective novel, heavyweight division.”—Entertainment Weekly

For the Jesse Stone novels

“If Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment.”—The New York Times Book Review

And for Michael Brandman

“[Brandman] is just the writer to carry Jesse into the future. No one understands what makes Bob Parker’s Jesse Stone tick better than Michael Brandman.”—Tom Selleck, star of the Jesse Stone TV movies

"Part of a grand tradition..."—USA Today

“I would personally like to thank Robert B. Parker for creating an admirable character like Jesse Stone and Michael Brandman for continuing his adventures and helping to keep Parker’s memory very much alive.”—BookReporter.com

“Will help meet insatiable demand for all things Parker.”—Library Journal

“Brandman nails Parker’s compressionist prose.”—Booklist

"Brandman perfectly reproduces Parker’s style in [an] impressive continuation of his series featuring Jesse Stone."—Publishers Weekly
 

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