Jesse Stone

Stone Cold

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Stone Sunday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and the fourth of Robert B. Parker‘s novels featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone. Stone Cold is similar to Trouble in Paradise in we do get a couple at the heart of the story, however this time the pair aren’t part of a heist crew but serial killers who get off on stalking and killing their victims. Wealthy, bored, and sharing the same murderous fetish, Brianna and Anthony Lincoln shoot down multiple victims in the city until finally targeting Jesse Stone.

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Death in Paradise

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  • Title: Death in Paradise
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Stone Sunday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and the third of Robert B. Parker‘s novels featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone. Death in Paradise gives us Jesse looking into the murder of a promiscuous high school student no one seems to miss. Even the girl’s parents deny any ties to young Billie whose body washes up on shore. It seems Jesse is the only one in all of Paradise who cares what happened to her.

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Trouble in Paradise

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Stone Sunday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and another case for Police Chief Jesse Stone. There’s a throughline of love and obsession in the second novel of the series that involves both Jesse dealing with his ex-wife relocating to the area and a group of thieves planning a heist run by career criminal Jimmy Macklin who is willing to betray just about everyone other than the woman he loves (and sometimes even her). Jimmy’s crazy plan isn’t help by his need to flirt with the police, putting him on Jesse’s radar sooner than necessary.

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Night Passage

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Stone Sunday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and the introduction of  Jesse Stone. More stoic, and far less of a smart-ass, than Spenser, talented but also deeply flawed, Stone offered Parker a new character to develop. It’s notable that we meet Jesse while drunk, attempting to sober up before beginning the drive from Los Angeles (where he was fired for drinking on the job) to the small northeastern city of Paradise. Drunk when he applied for the job, the first 50 pages or so of Night Passage involve Jesse’s drive across country thinking over his life, leaving his former job as a Homicide Detective, and his ex-wife, on one coast and begin a new life on the other. 

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Night and Day

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Throwback Tuesday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and its sheriff, Jesse Stone. The second-to-last of the Jesse Stone series to be written by Robert B. Parker, Night and Day makes use of a device Parker employed before in both Crimson Joy and Thin Air in which we see small snippets interspaced throughout the novel from another character’s perspective. In the case of Night and Day that character is the sexually-frustrated Seth Ralston whose voyeuristic peeping gets increasingly more aggressive with the armed invasion of women’s’ homes, romanticizing the encounters by calling himself the Night Hawk and sending letters to Stone and the Paradise Police Department.

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