Night and Day

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Police chief Jesse Stone has received his share of unusual calls, but none can top the one from the local junior high school. When reports of lewd conduct by the school's principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station, Jesse is faced with a particularly delicate situation. Jesse, of course, would like nothing more than to see the prim, peculiar Ingersoll punished. But Betsy Ingersoll is married to the managing partner of the biggest law firm in the state, and Jay Ingersoll wants the matter buried. And he is used to getting what he wants.

At the same time, the women of Paradise are being threatened by a tormented voyeur, dubbed "The Night Hawk," who's been scouring suburban neighborhoods as evening falls. Initially he's content to simply peer through windows, but as pressure builds, he becomes more reckless, entering homes, forcing his victims to strip at gunpoint, then photographing them at their most vulnerable. And according to the notes he's sending, he's not satisfied to stop there. It's up to Jesse to catch the Night Hawk, before it's too late.

©2009 Robert B Parker (P)2009 Random House

Night and Day

Another well told story by Parker. Characters are well developed and insights into his recurring characters provide greater depth

If you enjoy Jesse Stone, add this to your list

Returning 10 seconds in

Narrator is wrong and awful. Sounds too old for Jesse (who is supposed to be from the West coast, to boot), but he isn’t even going to try lowering his pitch to read women’s parts (just change his accent?). I hate doing this, but I am returning it right away.

author can't remember his story lines

I've enjoyed Robert parker books but this book has messed up both the Jesse stone and the Sonny Randall series for me. Mr parker only needs to go back to the last 2 Sonny Randall books to realize that he has messed the plot line in night and day because he wanted to get rid of Jen and bring Sonny Randall back as a love interest. So he merely pretends the last 2 Sonny Randall books don't exist and uses her in the story line while pretending that she and her ex husband are not seeing one another. My question to mr Parker is since Richie was mas married and divorced from his wife during the last 2 Sonny Randall books and he had given it all up for Sonny, have you married him off again? I enjoyed one Sonny Randall and her brief affair with Jesse and her appearance in several other books but I'm soory that I bought this book and probably won't be buying anymore books in the Jesse Stone series until he gets his plot lines straight.

Night and Day

A fun read.

He Said, She Said

I have read many books by this author but this is the first one I have listened to and I had to stop because I couldn't stand hearing, "He said," "She said". My goodness, couldn't the reader have improvised a bit! It was soooo distracting, I had to stop listening to the book so that was wasted money for me.

Slipped

I have been a devoted fan of the Parkers and it makes me sad to give this book such a bad rating.
The school story line was implausible. Out of touch with reality. The actions of the principal would have drawn instant reprisal from any school board. The book seemed to be thrown together in an attempt to make a quick buck. Strike outs are to be expected and we are waiting until the next book hits the ball out of the park.

He said, She said, He said

I could not finish this book for the horrible repetition of 'he said' and ' she said' after just about every sentence. I think that if this was edited out the book would be about 2 hours long. I cannot believe that this was in any way edited by anybody with anything above a 3rd grade education. It would be a good story otherwise.
But give it a miss

Not Happy with this reading

Poorly read got confusing quick. Reader was irritating. Won't buy again if I know this is the reader