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Table of Contents

THE SPENSER NOVELS

Rough Weather
Now & Then
Hundred-Dollar Baby
School Days
Cold Service
Bad Business
Back Story
Widows Walk
Potshot
Hugger Mugger
Hush Money
Sudden Mischief
Small Vices
Chance
Thin Air
Walking Shadow
Paper Doll
Double Deuce
Pastime
Stardust
Playmates
Crimson Joy
Pale Kings and Princes
Taming a Sea-Horse
A Catskill Eagle
Valediction
The Widening Gyre
Ceremony
A Savage Place
Early Autumn
Looking for Rachel Wallace
The Judas Goat
Promised Land
Mortal Stakes
God Save the Child
The Godwulf Manuscript

THE JESSE STONE NOVELS

Stranger in Paradise
High Profile
Sea Change
Stone Cold
Death in Paradise
Trouble in Paradise
Night Passage

THE SUNNY RANDALL NOVELS

Spare Change
Blue Screen
Melancholy Baby
Shrink Rap
Perish Twice
Family Honor

ALSO BY ROBERT B. PARKER

Resolution
Appaloosa
Double Play
Gunmans Rhapsody
All Our Yesterdays
A Year at the Races
(with Joan H. Parker)
Perchance to Dream
Poodle Springs
(with Raymond Chandler)
Love and Glory
Wilderness
Three Weeks in Spring
(with Joan H. Parker)
Training with Weights
(with John R. Marsh)

For Joan:
Only you beneath the moon
and under the sun.

JESSE STONE sat in his office at the Paradise police station, looking at the sign painted on the pebbled-glass window of his office door. From the inside it read FEIHC, or it would have, if the letters hadnt been backward. He tried pronouncing the word, decided he couldnt, and stopped thinking about it. On his desk was a glamour head shot of his ex-wife. He looked at it for a time, and decided not to think about that, either.

Molly Crane came from the front desk and opened the door.

Suit just called in, she said. Theres some kind of disturbance at the junior high school and he thinks you and I ought to come down.

Girls involved? Jesse said.

Thats why he wants me, Molly said.

I understand, Jesse said. But why does he want me?

Youre the chief of police, Molly said. Everybody wants you.

Jesse glanced at Jenns picture again.

Oh, Jesse said. Yeah.

Jesse stood, and clipped his gun to his belt.

Though you sure dont dress like a chief, Molly said.

Jesse was wearing a uniform shirt, blue jeans, Nikes, a dark blue Paradise police baseball hat, and a badge that said Chief. He tapped the badge.

I do where it counts, he said. Whos on the desk?

Steve, Molly said.

Okay, Jesse said. You drive. No siren.

Oh, damn, Molly said. I never get to use the siren.

Maybe when you make sergeant, Jesse said.

There were two Paradise police cruisers parked outside of the junior high school.

Whos in the other cruiser, Jesse said as they got out of the car.

Eddie Cox, Molly said. He and Suit have seven to eleven this week.

They walked into the school lobby, where a thick mill of parents was being held at bay by two Paradise cops. Most of the parents were mothers, with a scatter of fathers looking oddly out of place. When Jesse came in they all swarmed toward him, many of them speaking to him loudly.

Youre the chief of police, are you gonna do something?

I want that woman arrested!

Shes a goddamned child molester!

What are you going to do about this?

Do you know what she did?

Did they tell you what happened here?

Jesse ignored them.

He said to Molly, Keep them here.

Then he pointed at Suit and jerked his head down the hallway.

Whats up, Jesse said when they were alone.

Simpsons real name was Luther. He was a big kid, with blond hair and a round face. He wasnt as young as he looked, but he was young. He was called Suitcase after the baseball player, Harry Suitcase Simpson.

This is weird, Suit said.

Jesse waited.

Mrs. Ingersoll, Suit said, the principal. Christ, she was principal when I was here.

Jesse waited.

There was some kind of after-school dance yesterday, Suit said, his voice speeding up a little. Eighth-grade dance. And before the dance, Mrs. Ingersoll took all the girls into the girls locker room and picked up their dresses to see what kind of underwear they had on.

Jesse stared at Suit for a time without speaking.

Then Jesse said, Huh?

Thats what the girls claim.

Why did she do that? Jesse said.

Dont know, Suit said. But when the girls got home a lot of them told their mothers, and... He gestured toward the crowd.

Jesse nodded.

Wheres Mrs. Ingersoll? Jesse said.

In her office.

You ask her about this? Jesse said.

She called in and said there was a disturbance. So we came down here and found what you see. It was like a damned lynch mob. We sort of wrangled them into the lobby, and Mrs. Ingersoll went in her office and wont come out, which is when we called you... andSuitcase looked a little uncertainbecause of the, ah, nature of the alleged crime, you know, we thought Molly should come, too.

Jesse nodded.

How about the girls? Jesse said.

That got, ah, checked? Suit said.

Uh-huh.

I guess theyre in class, Suit said. I havent had time to do a lot of investigating. Me and Eddie had our hands full with the parents.

Jesse nodded.

Isnt this swell, he said.

Suit shrugged.

Jesse walked down the corridor to the lobby. The crowd of parents was silent now, standing in angry vigil.

Get them down to the auditorium, Jesse said to Suit. Get the names of their daughters and ask the girls to go there, too. You need help, call Steve, tell him to send some.

You gonna talk to Mrs. Ingersoll? Suit said.

Yep.

Then you coming to the auditorium? Suit said.

Yep.

You know what youre gonna tell the parents?

Not a clue, Jesse said.

JESSE BROUGHT Molly with him when he went into Mrs. Ingersolls office.

Chief Stone, Mrs. Ingersoll said when he came into her office. How lovely to see you. And this is?

Officer Crane, Jesse said.

How do you do, Officer Crane, Mrs. Ingersoll said.

Molly nodded.

Mrs. Ingersoll smiled brightly.

Have you dispersed those foolish people? she said.

Weve asked them to wait in the auditorium, Jesse said. And well ask their daughters to join them there.

My goodness, Mrs. Ingersoll said.

Tell me about this situation, Jesse said.

Mrs. Ingersoll was sitting behind her big desk. The desktop was immaculately empty.

Situation? Chief Stone, I fear that it overstates things to call it a situation.

Tell me something, Jesse said.

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