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, the award-winning producer of more than
thirty motion pictures, collaborated with Robert B. Parker for
years on movie projects, the Spenser TV movies, and the Jesse Stone
series of TV movies starring Tom Selleck. Brandman co-wrote the
screenplays for Stone Cold, No Remorse, Innocents Lost, and Benefit
of the Doubt, and supervised the screenplay adaptations of Night
Passage, Death in Paradise, and Sea Change. He and Selleck were
executive producers of the entire series. Brandman lives in
California.
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
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