New Authors Will Continue Parker’s Crime Novels

Spenser, Jesse Stone live on despite death of Robert B. Parker
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 27, 2011 2:25 PM CDT
Two Authors Will Continue Robert B. Parker's Spenser and Jesse Stone Crime Novel Series
A 2006 file photo of late author Robert B. Parker.   (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)

The two most famous creations of late crime novelist Robert B. Parker will live on. His estate will allow two writers to continue the Spenser and Jesse Stone novels, reports Publishers Weekly. Michael Brandman will take over the Spenser series, which debuted in 1974 and now number 39. Ace Atkins gets the Jesse Stone novels (1997, nine tomes). Meanwhile, the last novel Parker completed before his death last year, Sixhill, will be released next month, notes the AP. (More Robert B. Parker stories.)

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