Night and Day (Jesse Stone)
by Robert B. Parker
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Author: Robert B. ParkerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2009-02-24
ISBN: 0399155414
Number of pages: 289
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Putnam
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- ISBN13: 9780399155413
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Book Reviews of Night and Day (Jesse Stone)
Book Review: Dark Humor Focused on Disgusting Sexual Obsessions and Marital Conflicts
Summary: 3 Stars
In Night and Day, Paradise is turned into a little Peyton Place for heterosexual deviants. Jesse Stone (like good small-town police chiefs everywhere) needs to straighten things out with persuasion (moral and otherwise) rather than prosecution and jail sentences. How will he do it? That's the main mystery in this book that is light on the mystery and heavy on the psychology of harmful sexual obsessions.
The local principal, Betsy Ingersoll, has decided to check on the underwear that school girls are planning to wear to the dance. Naturally, the parents and girls are up in arms for her peeking where she shouldn't be peeking. Jesse has a problem though. The principal is married to the managing partner of New England's biggest law firm, and the husband wants it all kept quiet.
A peeping Tom (self-named the Night Hawk) is out for a stroll on Wednesday nights, fascinated by unshielded windows. After the women in town become aware of his activities, he takes more invasive steps to satisfy his craving for viewing unclothed women.
A schoolgirl is upset that her family is falling apart due to the parents' swinging life style. There's no crime against it, but Jesse knows it's wrong and wants to stop it.
Meanwhile Jesse is having his ups and downs with his ex-wife Jenn. He's driven to drink and to avoid sharing what's upsetting him with his shrink.
Instead, Jesse decides he wants to understand why all the weirdos in Paradise are letting their lives be ruined by sexual obsessions, including the police chief.
The dialog is consistently witty and often hilariously funny . . . playing off the context of the sexual activities.
Those who don't like to read about bad marriages won't like the book very much. These marriages aren't appealing in the least.
I found the sexual context to be uglier than it was humorous. I graded the book down accordingly.
Maybe in the next Jesse Stone book, Mr. Parker can go back to having Jesse Stone deal with mobsters, kidnappers, thugs, and other nasty characters who just want to get a lot of money for nothing. Those criminals make better fictional foils for Jesse Stone than these sickos.
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