Stranger in Paradise
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 293
- ISBN-13
- 9780399154607
- Type
- novel
About this book
Stranger in Paradise (2008) is the seventh of Robert B. Parker's original Jesse Stone novels, continuing the series' close attention to Jesse's drinking and his relationship with Jenn as he keeps solving crimes well beyond what Paradise's town council bargained for. It runs 293 pages.
Key facts about Stranger in Paradise
Stranger in Paradise is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 2008. It runs to 293 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Stranger in Paradise. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399154607 to find the main one.
Stranger in Paradise is book 7 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
Stranger in Paradise is book 7 in the Jesse Stone series. It follows High Profile. It is followed by Night and Day. 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 9780399154607