Sex In The 12Th Century

October, 1997

Spenser and Hawk have company. The first book in a new detective series by Robert B. Parker, Night Passage (Putnam), introduces Police Chief Jesse Stone, a former LAPD homicide detective who escaped the rat race for a small town in Massachusetts. The pace is slower, but Parker proves he can still write airtight plots with patches of realistic, perfectly pitched dialogue. New cases appear for familiar gumshoes: Edna Buchanan's Margin of Error (Hyperion) sticks with her alter ego, Miami crime repo...