Stranger in Paradise by Robert B Parker

Stranger in Paradise by Robert B Parker

Jesse Stone is an ex LA cop who has taken the job of police chief in Paradise, Massachusetts. His drinking, his damaged relationship with his wife, define him as much as his supreme skill at policing his patch. When Crow, an Apache hitman, turns up in Jesse Stone's office, he is intrigued and very much on his guard. Ten years before Crow was part of a gang that had taken a woman in the town hostage when a bank raid went wrong. The hostages were released unharmed, thanks to Crow's moral view that you didn't kill women, but he also got away with enough money not to have to work again. So why is Crow back in town? Why has he come to see Jesse? And why has he taken a job of kidnapping a young girl and her mother? All questions to which Jesse has to find answers as things start to go badly wrong in Paradise.

… deftly sketched characters … his use of genre material is always freshHe 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 *

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Robert B. Parker completed a Ph.D. in English at Boston University. He married his wife Joan in 1956. He began writing his Spencer novels while teaching at Boston's North-eastern University in 1971. In 1997 he wrote his first Jesse Stone novel, Night Passage. Parker was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2002.

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ISBN 13	9781847242471
ISBN 10	1847242472
Titre	Stranger in Paradise
Auteur	Robert B Parker
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Quercus Publishing
Année de publication	2008-05-08
Nombre de pages	256
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