Jesse Stone · Book 10
Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues
- A continuation of Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone, written by Michael Brandman.
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 274
- ISBN-13
- 9781780872926
- Type
- novel

About this book
Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues (2011) opens the series' first continuation phase, with Michael Brandman picking up Jesse Stone directly after Parker's death with no reboot or timeskip. It's the tenth entry in the series, running 274 pages, the first of Brandman's three novels.
Its place in Jesse Stone
Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues is book 10 in the Jesse Stone series. It follows Split Image. It is followed by Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice. 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 9781780872926