Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels) | Robert B. Parker

Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels) | Robert B. Parker | 10 Years Later

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	Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels) Robert B. Parker Putnam Adult, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 55 reviews view larger image
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Jesse Stone is no stranger

I have read/or saw all the Jesse Stone movies.
This book was good.
I prefer to see the movies only because
Tom Selleck plays Jesse Stone/which is a
plus.

10 Years Later

A decade ago, Jesse Stone confronted a band of ex-cons, including Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, the so-called Apache hit man, when they captured and looted Stiles Island, an enclave off Paradise Island, where Jess is Chief of Police. Now, in the latest book in the series, with the Statute of Limitations running out, Crow is back in town. He makes a great counterpoint to the droll Stone. This time, they cooperate with each other to a rousing bang-up finish.

Crow is there on an assignment from a Miami mobster. Stone, as usual is grappling with his love for his ex-wife and penchant for alcohol. It all makes for another amusing chapter in the series, with the customary Parker touch and dialog. Parker just goes on and on. Thank the Lord.

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A true Parker Fan

I purchased this book as an ongoing Christmas present for a friend. He's a big Robert Parker fan, and loves this book. It would have been five starts except that after reading Parker novels for a number of years (and there's more than one book released each year), he's started to see a pattern in story development. Still, he loves the books.

Love Parker's writing; bored with Jesse's angst

First Sentence: Molly Crane stuck her head in the doorway to Jesse's office.

Police chief Jesse Stone's last encounter with Wilson "Crow" Cromartie was when Crow kidnapped and killed several of the town's residents and escaped with a large amount of cash. Now Crow is back asking Stone to stay out of his way while he find a young woman, Amber, and brings her back to her father, a gangster from South Florida, but after Crow has killed the girl's father.

Amber is living in a squat doing drugs and sex with her boyfriend. When the boyfriend kills Amber's mother, Crow and Stone join forces to save Amber and take out both the father and the boyfriend.

I love Parker's style, plotting, dialogue, sense of place and characters. I am bored to death with Jesse's angst and the relationship with his ex-wife. Without the latter of these, this would have been a great book.

I am at the point of debating whether to read another Stone book or let it go. However, I'm betting Parker's writing will bring me back again. I just want to read something wonderful from an author so capable of delivering just that.

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