ROBERT B. PARKER'S THE DEVIL WINS by Reed Farrel Coleman

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A nor'easter uncovers the bodies of two girls gone missing from Paradise, Massachusetts twenty-five years earlier, bringing back a flood of memories for their friend Officer Molly Crane, and making their killers desperate to stay hidden.

As one might expect, Coleman seems more at ease in this, his second novel continuing Parker's Jesse Stone series. More impressive, though, are the tangible refinements: fewer viewpoints and locations than his first, Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot. These make Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins the tauter tale that puts in sharper focus Coleman's gift for fleshing out characters.