night lights
night and day
paradise massachusetts police chief jesse stone confronts a towns darkest secrets in the shocking new novel from the new york timesbestselling author and americas greatest mystery writer the new york sun . br things are getting strange in paradise massachusetts . police chief jesse stone is called to the junior high school when reports of lewd conduct by the schools principal betsy ingersoll filter into the station . ingersoll claims she was protecting the propriety of her students when she inspected each girls undergarments in the locker room . jesse would like nothing more than to see ingersoll punished but her high powered attorney husband stands in the way . at the same time the women of paradise are faced with a threat to their sense of security with the emergence of a tormented voyeur dubbed the night hawk . initially hes content to peer through windows but as times goes on he becomes more reckless forcing his victims to strip at gunpoint then photographing them at their most vulnerable . and according to the notes hes sending to jesse hes not satisfied to stop there . its up to jesse to catch the night hawk before its too late .