(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 9)

Two, count ’em, two:  that’s the number of Robert B. Parker hardcovers due out in May.  Coming on the 5th is Brimstone, the second sequel to 2005’s Appaloosa, and on the 9th Philomel will publish Cashing the Bear, a YA novel that introduces Spencer.  PW’s review of Night and Day, the author’s newest Jesse Stone adventure (copies in print:  177,000) said, “[Parker] uses long stretches of his tradmark pithy dialogue to carry the story briskly forward.”

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