Jesse Stone · Book 2
Trouble in Paradise
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 324
- ISBN-13
- 9780399144332
- Type
- novel

About this book
Trouble in Paradise, from 1998, is the second of Robert B. Parker's nine original Jesse Stone novels, following Jesse as he settles into the Paradise police chief's job while fighting his drinking problem and staying tangled with his ex-wife Jenn. It runs 324 pages.
Its place in Jesse Stone
Trouble in Paradise is book 2 in the Jesse Stone series. It follows Night Passage. It is followed by Death 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 9780399144332