When a young journalist researching the cocaine trade in a small Massachusetts town is found murdered, private detective Spenser is called in to find out who is responsible. Wheaton isn’t just any small town though – Spenser soon discovers it’s one of the biggest cocaine distribution centres in the Northeast. But the local drugs cartel are not the only suspects – did the journalist get too close to the truth, or too close to the wife of a very jealous man? **Robert B. Parker** was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the Jesse Stone novels, the acclaimed Virgil Cole / Everett Hitch westerns, and the Sunny Randall novels. Long considered a grand master of American crime fiction, he died in 2010.