If Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity
New York Times
Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer
Boston Globe
When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it
Harlen Coben
One of the great series in the history of the detective story
New York Times Book Review
Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin
Boston Observer
The legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition
Cincinnati Post
Nobody does it better
Publishers Weekly
'If Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jess Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity' New York Times Book Review.
New York Times
'… deftly sketched characters … his use of genre material is always fresh. He demonstrates his continued ability to write well-constructed and literate works of detective fiction' Times Literary Supplement.
Times Literary Supplement