Big Shot (a Jesse Stone novel) by Christopher Farnsworth
I hadn't read a Jesse Stone novel in a while because at least one of the writers who took over after Robert Parker's death really did not understand the tone of this series. But Christopher Farnsworth has gotten close to the original. The story starts when Jesse sees a drunken man in a very expensive sportscar stopped on the side of the road one night. It turns out to be Ramsey Devlin, a hot-shot hedge fund manager who lost millions of dollars of his clients' money in a crypto scam then got away with it on a loophole. He promises that Jesse will pay for bringing him into the jail to sleep it off. That initial scene helped me figure out the main twist of the book, but it was still an enjoyable story. Jesse is the prime suspect when Devlin disappears because Devlin had intentionally made it seem like he and Jesse had an acrimonious relationship (which wasn't true on Jesse's part). But Jesse finds out who his real friends are--and manages to solve the mystery. Good re...