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.
Key facts about Death in Paradise
Death in Paradise is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 2001. It runs to 289 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Death in Paradise. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425187067 to find the main one.
Death in Paradise is book 3 of 23 in the Jesse Stone series. The series has 22 published books. However, the series starts with Night Passage (1997).
Additionally, Robert B. Parker writes Spenser, Sunny Randall and Cole and Hitch as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and western shelves. Meanwhile, Silent Night is the latest published Robert B. Parker book on file, from 2013.
About Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker was an American crime novelist credited with reviving and modernizing the hardboiled detective genre for the late twentieth century. A former English professor with a doctoral dissertation on Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, he channeled that scholarship into the Spenser series, following a wisecracking, code-bound Boston private investigator across nearly forty novels beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript in 1973. See every Robert B. Parker book in order.
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