A review by nonna7
Robert B. Parker's The Bitterest Pill by Reed Farrel Coleman, Robert B. Parker

4.0

When a local high school girl is found dead in her bed from an overdose, Jesse Stone wonders if big city drug problems are coming to his small town of Paradise. It doesn't take long for him to discover that there is a pattern: a teenager suffers an injury, regular treatment isn't doing it and they find a doctor who will prescribe Oxycontin. The book was published two years ago. Since then doctors are less likely to prescribe Oxycontin although there is always a doctor who will do it for a fee. Soon Jesse is targeted by the gang. Of course they don't get Jesse but there is quite a trail of bodies. I've mixed a couple of these so I have to go back and read the ones that came just before this one. Anyway, this is a good one. It's a fast and relatively light read.