Jesse Stone · Book 1
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.
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