I started reading Robert B. Parker detective novels in 1973 when his "The Godwulf Manuscript" was published. He writes a new book every six months or so now and I look forward to them and check them out of the library and read them like I used to read Nancy Drew stories. Or listen to them on tape. He's written so many, over such a stretch of time, that I can listen to them more than once without remembering in advance exactly what is going to happen. These days, he's the only author that I treat this way.
Jesse Stone is one of his ongoing characters and I was delighted to see Stone showing up in a TV movie, with Tom Selleck doing the honors. I like Tom Selleck. He's too old for the part but I'm giving him a pass cause he's Tom Selleck. The movie is true to the character and as light and fluffy as the Parker books. Just something for a Parker fan to sit back and enjoy, especially knowing that there are at least four more after this one.