Jesse Stone · Book 3
Death in Paradise
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 289
- ISBN-13
- 9780425187067
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death in Paradise, published in 2001, is the third of Parker's original Jesse Stone novels, part of a series that sits stylistically close to his Spenser books -- terse and dialogue-driven, but scaled to a small-town police department rather than a lone investigator. It runs 289 pages.
Its place in Jesse Stone
Death in Paradise is book 3 in the Jesse Stone series. It follows Trouble in Paradise. It is followed by Stone Cold. See the full Jesse Stone reading order.
Jesse Stone is a former LAPD homicide detective, fired for drinking, who takes the police chief's job in the small fictional Massachusetts coastal town of Paradise mostly because no better-qualified candidate wanted a small-town posting — and because the town council figured a broken big-city cop would be easy to control. He's harder to control than they hoped: a genuinely gifted investigator who keeps solving crimes far more serious than Paradise's board expected, while fighting a drinking problem and staying…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425187067