Jesse Stone is an ex LA cop who has taken the job of police chief in Paradise, Massachusetts. His drinking and his damaged relationship with his wife, define him as much as his supreme skill at policing his patch. When Crow, an Apache hitman, turns up in Jesse Stone's office, he is intrigued and very much on his guard. Ten years before, Crow was part of a gang that had taken a woman in the town hostage when a bank raid went wrong. The hostages were released unharmed, thanks to Crow's moral view that you didn't kill women, but he also got away with enough money not to have to work again. So why is Crow back in town? Why has he come to see Jesse? And why has he taken a job of kidnapping a young girl and her mother? All questions to which Jesse has to find answers as things start to go badly wrong in Paradise.

About the Author
Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the Jesse Stone novels, the acclaimed Virgil Cole / Everett Hitch westerns, and the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010.

Reviews
If Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity * New York Times *
Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer * Boston Globe *
When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it * Harlen Coben *
One of the great series in the history of the detective story * New York Times Book Review *
Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin * Boston Observer *
The legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition * Cincinnati Post *
Nobody does it better * Publishers Weekly *
'If Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jess Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity' New York Times Book Review. * New York Times *
'... deftly sketched characters ... his use of genre material is always fresh. He demonstrates his continued ability to write well-constructed and literate works of detective fiction' Times Literary Supplement. * Times Literary Supplement *



Book Information
ISBN 9781847247315
Author Robert B. Parker
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Quercus Publishing
Publisher Quercus Publishing
Weight(grams) 212g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 134mm * 24mm