The Hangman’s Sonnet
The Hangman's Sonnet is a 2018 book by Robert B. Parker and is listed as book #16 in the Jesse Stone series. This page collects the key publication details for the title and places it within the broader reading order.…
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Loitering with Intent
Money troubles and a humiliating breakup set Stone Barrington in motion in Loitering with Intent, but the real engine of the story is a missing-person job that looks easy only from a distance. A wealthy man hires Stone to find…
Sulfur Springs
Sulfur Springs is a Cork O’Connor novel that takes the series out of Minnesota and into the tense, dangerous landscape of the Arizona borderlands. The story begins when Cork and his new wife, Rainy Bisonette, receive a desperate call from…
A Ryan Regret
A Ryan Regret is a short companion story set in Sadie Kincaid’s New York Ruthless world, with a tighter and more intimate premise than the main novels. This time the focus falls on Jessie and Shane during a weekend at…
Soul Music
Soul Music is one of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels and the third book in the Death sequence, though it can still be read on its own. It brings the series into collision with “music with rocks in,” Pratchett’s comic fantasy…
Live and Let Lionel
Live and Let Lionel is not a standard next-step Zodiac Academy novel so much as a bonus collection built for readers already deep into the series. Rather than advancing one central plot, it gathers extra stories, alternate points of view,…
The Sound of Broken Glass
A barrister is found dead in a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, under circumstances compromising enough to make the case immediately messy for the detectives assigned to it. Gemma James teams up with Melody Talbot to investigate, and what first…
Enemy of the State
Enemy of the State begins with Mitch Rapp making a stunning break from official channels after uncovering evidence that a Saudi prince is using his fortune to fund ISIS and that old secrets about Saudi ties to 9/11 were deliberately…
The Caretaker
The Caretaker is a Mike Bowditch short story rather than a full-length novel, and its premise begins with a classic intrusion setup. The new owners of a dream cottage on a remote Maine lake find themselves first taunted and then…
The Innocent Wife
The Innocent Wife opens with a scene that feels intimate and deeply unsettling: a woman has been dressed for a romantic anniversary dinner in a secluded cabin, but she is already dead by the time anyone finds her. For Detective…