Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone faces the case of his career in the newest novel in the celebrated series.When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be a treacherous and emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida; she also had a penchant for steamy sex and was an enthusiastic participant in a video depicting the same. Somehow the combination of her past and her present got her killed, but no one is talking–not the crew of the Lady Jane, the Fort Lauderdale yacht moored in Paradise Harbor; not Florence's very blonde, very tan twin sisters, Corliss and Claudia; and not her curiously affectless parents, living out a sterile retirement in a Miami high-rise. But someone–Jesse–has to speak for the dead, even if it puts him in harm's way.If Spenser 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...You want to cheer. –THE New York Times BOOK REVIEW
