Stone Cold - Robert B. Parker

Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone has a problem no officer of the law likes to face: dead bodies keep appearing but clues do not.\n Let's take them in order. A man takes his dog out for a run on the beach, only to be discovered hours later - with two holes in his chest.\n A woman drives her Volvo to the store to do some grocery shopping,\n and is then found dead, her body crumpled behind her loaded shopping cart. A commuter takes a shortcut home from the train, and never makes it back to his house.\n And there's a fourth that comes close to Jesse personally.\n Hunting down a serial killer is difficult and dangerous in any town, but in a town like Paradise,\n where the city's selectmen and the media add untold pressures, Jesse feels considerable heat. Already walking an emotional tightrop