Night and Day

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.

Robert B Parker is a master at tight storylines, great characters and perfect dialogue.

This is standard Parker -- exactly what you expect, with a lot of sex driven stuff that makes me think maybe he's working out some issues.

The story is listenable...but like most of Parker's stuff, it's over way too soon -- which I suppose is a good thing.

I enjoyed Night and Day. But then, i'm a big Parker Fan. Jesse Stone is right up there with Spencer for Parker fans. The story isn't anyhting special but Parker is second to none when it comes to dialog!

A fun read.

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.

Yes. I read many of Robert Parker's Spenser series years ago. I really enjoyed his style of writing and the dialogue. The only thing about the Spenser novels I disliked was the Spenser/Susan relationship. The only thing I dislike about the Jesse Stone novels, you guessed it, the Jesse/Jen relationship. Although this time, it appears that the author agees with me ... finally. I love the supporting characters of these books and how they enrich the storylines. I with there could be more, as I only recently stumbled upon this series.

Some of Parker's earlier Spenser novels. I like the character of Jesse Stone. I think he is Parker at his best. H

This is the first time I listened to James Naughton's performance and I found it enhanced the storyline, although the Bahston accents were a little overdone. I'm a lifelong Bostonian but if you met me, I don't tawk the way they do!

Liked the story, liked the reader. For audio format, should consider omitting the "he said", "she said" tags. In the written format, they are indicators of who is talking. In the audio format, this goal could be achieved by voice inflection of the reader, with less distraction from the story.

I am a fan of the made for TV movies starring Tom Selleck. I've seen three of them. As I listen to these books I see the characters from the movies.

No spoiling here

He does a little New England accenting of the spoken lines

No, but very enjoyable

Highly recommended

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.

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