Night and Day

Resumen del libro

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone confronts a towns darkest secrets in the shocking new novel from the New York Times-bestselling author and 'Americas greatest mystery writer' (The New York Sun).

Things are getting strange in Paradise, Massachusetts. Police Chief Jesse Stone is called to the junior high school when reports of lewd conduct by the schools principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station. Ingersoll claims she was protecting the propriety of her students when she inspected each girls undergarments in the locker room. Jesse would like nothing more than to see Ingersoll punished, but her high-powered attorney husband stands in the way. At the same time, the women of Paradise are faced with a threat to their sense of security with the emergence of a tormented voyeur, dubbed 'The Night Hawk.' Initially, hes content to peer through windows, but as times goes on, he becomes more reckless, forcing his victims to strip at gunpoint, then photographing them at their most vulnerable. And according to the notes hes sending to Jesse, hes not satisfied to stop there. Its up to Jesse to catch the Night Hawk, before its too late.

Biografía del autor

Robert B. Parker (Springfield, 1932-Cambridge, 2010) fue uno de los autores más prolíficos de novela negra. En 1973 publicó la primera de ellas, El manuscrito Godwulf (SN, 255), en la que presentaba a Spenser, el detective privado que iniciaría la serie que le hizo famoso y le convirtió en un referente del género negro estadounidense. El personaje fue llevado a la pequeña pantalla en los años ochenta y gozó de una gran popularidad. Parker fue autor también de otras sagas policiacas, como la de la detective Sunny Randall y la del policía Jesse Stone, y en 1989 aceptó terminar la novela inacabada de Raymond Chandler La historia de Poodle Springs, y en 1991 escribió una secuela para El sueño eterno.