Coleman also doesn’t dwell on the Jesse Stone television movies starring Tom Selleck, although it’s clear he respects both book and film audiences. He shows it by applying his own deeply empathetic style to the damaged, alcoholic police chief in a plot that takes readers back to the pivotal moment when Stone’s baseball career ended.

The result is a new introduction to old characters and proof the past is a predator that never stops hunting.

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