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T H E S P E N S E R N O V E L S

T H E J E S S E S T O N E N O V E L S

School Days

Stone Cold

Cold Service

Death in Paradise

Bad Business

Trouble in Paradise

Back Story

Night Passage

Widow’s Walk

Potshot

T H E S U N N Y R A N D A L L N O V E L S

Hugger Mugger

Melancholy Baby

Hush Money

Shrink Rap

Sudden Mischief

Perish Twice

Small Vices

Family Honor

Chance

Thin Air

A L S O B Y R O B E R T B . P A R K E R

Walking Shadow

Paper Doll

Appaloosa

Double Deuce

Double Play

Pastime

Gunman’s Rhapsody

Stardust

All Our Yesterdays

Playmates

A Year at the Races

(with Joan Parker)

Crimson Joy

Perchance to Dream

Pale Kings and Princes

Poodle Springs

Taming a Sea-Horse

(with Raymond Chandler)

A Catskill Eagle

Love and Glory

Valediction

Wilderness

The Widening Gyre

Three Weeks in Spring

Ceremony

(with Joan Parker)

A Savage Place

Training with Weights

Early Autumn

(with John R. Marsh)

Looking for Rachel Wallace

The Judas Goat

Promised Land

Mortal Stakes

God Save the Child

The Godwulf Manuscript

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Penguin Group (USA) Inc. , 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA • Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc. ) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England • Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) • Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) • Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panscheel Park, New Delhi–110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL, England Copyright © 2005 by Robert B. Parker

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parker, Robert B. , date.

Sea change / Robert B. Parker.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-7865-7713-4

1. Stone, Jesse (Fictitious character)—Fiction.

2. Police—Massachusetts—Fiction.

3. Police chiefs—Fiction.

4. Massachusetts—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3566. A686R33 2005

2004043150

813'. 54—dc22

Book design by Meighan Cavanaugh

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.