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Jesse Stone mysteries

Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Brandman, Michael
Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956
Lupica, Mike
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1. Night passage

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Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Series Volume:
1.
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Fired from Los Angeles for drinking, Jesse Stone lands a job as police chief in a Massachusetts town whose leaders want a pushover. When a white supremacist militiaman tries murder, Stone surprises them.

2. Trouble in Paradise

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Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Description:
Parker's second Jesse Stone crime novel (after last year's Night Passage) finds the chief of police of modest Paradise, Mass., battling a ruthless gang of thieves even as he jousts with personal demons. Two parallel plotlines tell the story. One follows career criminal James Macklin and his moll, Faye, and their planning and subsequent execution of the heist of all the money and valuables on super-rich Stiles Island, which is connected by bridge to...

3. Death in paradise

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Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Series Volume:
3.
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“[Parker's found] the pitch-perfect voice for a guy who is straining every muscle to cut down on the booze, hang on to his new job as police chief, and not get rattled by the body of a teenage girl”(The New York Times) in this bestselling mystery in the Jesse Stone series.
Robert B. Parker takes readers back in Paradise, where Detective Jesse Stone is looking for two things: the killer of a teenage girl—and someone,...

4. Stone cold: a Jesse Stone novel

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Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
Investigating a thrill-seeking pair of serial killers who are targeting the residents of an affluent suburban town, police chief Jesse Stone finds his job complicated by local politicians, the media, his drinking problem, and his ex-wife.

5. Sea change

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Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
Police chief Jesse Stone faces the case of his career in this thrilling novel in the New York Times bestselling series.
When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be an emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive,...

6. High profile

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Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
Struggling with a high-profile case involving the murders of a controversial talk-show host and a young woman, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone becomes increasingly frustrated by the lack of interest on the part of the victims' families.

7. Stranger in paradise

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Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Description:
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 mother killed.

8. Night and day

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Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone must deal in his own laconic way with the town's rights and wrongs, including a Peeping Tom, the Paradise Free Swingers, and a firestorm of protests at the junior high school.

9. Split image

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Author:
Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
3.1 stars
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What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.

10. Robert B. Parker's Killing the blues

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Author:
Brandman, Michael
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
Massachusetts police chief Jesse Stone's investigation of a violent series of car thefts is complicated by political pressures, the summer tourist season, and the questionable goals of an ambitious PR executive.

11. Robert B. Parker's Fool me twice: a Jesse Stone novel

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Author:
Brandman, Michael
Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Description:
When a visiting actress becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert. And when Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest bring him into conflict with the local selectment, the DA, and some people with very deep pockets.

12. Robert B. Parker's Damned if you do: a Jesse Stone novel

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Author:
Brandman, Michael
Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it's over"--

13. Robert B. Parker's Blind spot: a Jesse Stone novel

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Author:
Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-
Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
"Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short when...

14. Robert B. Parker's The Devil wins: a Jesse Stone novel

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Author:
Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-
Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man's, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone's arrival in Paradise,...

15. Robert B. Parker's debt to pay: a Jesse Stone novel

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Author:
Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-
Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
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Description:
"The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But...

16. Robert B. Parker's The hangman's sonnet: a Jesse Stone novel

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Author:
Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-
Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancee by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protege, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last forty years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master...

17. Robert B. Parker's Colorblind: a Jesse Stone novel

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Author:
Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-
Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Jesse Stone is back on the job after a stint in rehab, and the road to recovery is immediately made bumpy by a series of disturbing and apparently racially motivated crimes, beginning with the murder of an African American woman. Then, Jesse's own deputy Alisha--the first black woman hired by the Paradise police force--becomes the target of a sophisticated frame-up. As he and his team work tirelessly to unravel the truth, he has to wonder if this...

18. Robert B. Parker's The bitterest pill

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Author:
Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-
Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"The opioid epidemic has reached Paradise, and Police Chief Jesse Stone must rush to stop the devastation in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parker's New York Times- bestselling series. When a popular high school cheerleader dies of a suspected heroin overdose, it becomes clear that the opioid epidemic has spread even to the idyllic town of Paradise. It will be up to police chief Jesse Stone to unravel the supply chain and unmask the criminals behind...

19. Fool's paradise

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Author:
Lupica, Mike
Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"When a body is discovered at the lake in Paradise, Police Chief Jesse Stone is surprised to find he recognizes the murder victim - the man had been at the same AA meeting as Jesse the evening before. But otherwise, Jesse has no clue as to the man's identity. He isn't a local, nor does he have ID on him, nor does any neighboring state have a reported missing person matching the man's description. Their single lead is from a taxi company that recalls...

20. Robert B. Parker's stone's throw

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Author:
Lupica, Mike
Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
"Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone"--

21. Robert B. Parker's fallout

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Author:
Lupica, Mike
Series Volume:
21.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"When two seemingly unconnected mysterious deaths occur on his watch, police chief Jesse Stone must pull out all the stops to unravel the truth and stop a killer from striking again"-- The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team's biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult--the dead teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase...