MIKE LUPICA chats to Paul Burke about FALLOUT (Jesse Stone) & REVENGE TOUR (Sunny Randall). Spenser, 'follow the money', the Parkersphere & the Robert B Parker legacy.

FALLOUT: Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team's biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult - the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined to keep him from digging further.
Jesse is further shocked by the murder of former Paradise police chief, Charlie Farrell. Farrell had been looking into a series of scam calls that preyed upon the elderly. But how do these 'ghost calls' connect to his murder? When threats - and gunshots - appear on Jesse's own doorstep, the race to find answers is on.

REVENGE TOUR PI Sunny Randall's landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed, and it is up to Sunny and her best friend Spike to ensure her protection. But as Sunny looks into the identity of Melanie Joan's stalker, she learns that much of the author's past is a product of her amazing imagination, and her loyalty to her old friend is challenged. 
At the same time, Sunny's aging ex-cop father, Phil, is threatened by a shady lawyer settling an old score. Fighting crimes on two fronts, Sunny must use all of her savvy, and the help of her friends, in order to protect those she loves.

Mike Lupica is a prominent sports writer. His syndicated column “Shooting from the Lip” appears every Sunday across America. He began his career covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post at age 23. For the past fifteen years, he has been a TV anchor for ESPN & hosts his own program, The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN2. Mike Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells, collaborated with William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year. He is a very successful children/YA author. His crime writing career began with a trilogy featuring Peter Finley. Now he writes the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall mysteries in the Robert B Parker series and will soon take on Spenser.

Recommendations
The Godwulf Manuscript, Cold Service & Backstory - Robert B Parker
A Heart Full of Headstones - Ian Rankin
Violent Ends - Neil Broadhurst
Triple Cross - James Patterson

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Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .

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