Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating...

About the inexplicable and violent death of Hawaiian Airlines Pilot Chris Northon in a lonely campground in Wallowa County, Oregon

"Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancě by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protǧ,̌ Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last forty years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master...