"Coleman keeps the characters and the somber atmosphere but makes the book his own stylistically." --"Booklist"
"Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series."
It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and still longer s[...]

Once a literary wunderkind, author Kip Weiler now teaches creative writing at Brixton County Community College-a third-rate school in a rural mining town. But when he saves his class from a potential bloodbath, he is initiated by two of his students into a cult-like group that worships the essential[...]

It all begins when PI Gulliver Dowd is approached by Ellis Torres, a street kid, on Valentino Pier in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Ellis has lost his dog, and after Gulliver helps to find the dog for him, they go their separate ways. So when Ellis is discovered beaten, unconscious and left for [...]