Robert B. Parker is world-renowned as an internationally bestselling author. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he completed a Ph.D. in English at Boston University. He began writing his Spenser novels while teaching at Boston's Northeastern University in 1971. In 1997 he won an Edgar for Best Novel for Promised Land, and was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2002. He passed away in January 2010.
Michael Brandman is uniquely qualified to carry the Jesse Stone series into the future. An award-winning producer of more than thirty motion pictures, he collaborated with Robert B. Parker on more than a dozen of them. Brandman produced three Parker-written Spenser films for A&E, and their collaboration continued with the Jesse Stone TV movies currently being broadcast on CBS.
Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far
more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis ArcherWhen it comes to detective novels,
90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about itSpenser is
a constant revelation for even long-time Parker fans
One of the great series in the history of the detective story Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity The
sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today . . .
the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition Nobody does it better Reading a Spenser novel is like a family reunion - it
makes one feel good 'No one understands what makes Bob Parker's Jesse Stone tick better than Michael Brandman - and Michael is just the writer to carry Jesse into the future' Tom Selleck.
