Stranger in Paradise (Chief Jesse Stone) - Hardcover

Parker, Robert B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399154604 ISBN 13: 9780399154607

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2008

Synopsis

Ten years after hit man Crow Cromartie escapes with the spoils of a lucrative heist, Massachusetts police officer Jesse Stone is astonished when the fugitive enlists his cooperation with a job gone bad involving a young woman whose father wants her killed. By the author of High Profile. 275,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

. deftly sketched characters . his use of genre material is always fresh. He demonstrates his continued ability to write well-constructed and literate works of detective fiction - Times Literary Supplement. (Times Literary Supplement)

If Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jess Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity - New York Times Book Review (New York Times)

From the Back Cover:

“If Spenser is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity” New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0399154604
• ISBN 13: 9780399154607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 293