Night Passage
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 318
- ISBN-13
- 9780399143045
- Type
- novel
About this book
Night Passage opens the Jesse Stone series in 1997, introducing the former LAPD homicide detective fired for drinking who takes the police chief's job in the small fictional Massachusetts town of Paradise -- a town council that expected a broken big-city cop to be easy to control. It runs 318 pages and is the first of Robert B. Parker's nine original novels in the series.
Key facts about Night Passage
Robert B. Parker wrote Night Passage, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1997. The book has 318 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399143045 to find the main one.
Night Passage is book 1 of 23 in the Jesse Stone series. The series has 22 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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
Night Passage is book 1 in the Jesse Stone series. It is followed by Trouble in Paradise. 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 9780399143045