ABOUT THE BOOK

Ellis Alves is a bad kid from the 'hood with a long record, but did he really murder Melissa Henderson, a white student from ritzy Pemberton College? Alves's former lawyers think he was framed, and they hire Spenser to uncover the truth. As he and longtime associate Hawk race from the backstreets of Boston to Manhattan's most elegant Avenues, Spenser gets a postgraduate course in the seamy side of life.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"Nobody does it better than Parker" - The Sunday Times

"Filled with light, shade, texture and complexity, Trouble in Paradise is the work of a master" - Boston Globe

"If you want non-stop action, awesome characters and overall kick-ass entertainment you need to read Parker" - Janet Evanovich

"Parker's sentences flow with as much wit, grace and assurance as ever, and Stone is a complex and consistently interesting new protagonist." - Newsday

"The best writer of this kind of fiction in the business today" - New Republic

"Vintage Parker" - Denver Post

ESSENTIAL TRIVIA

In the 1980's ABC made a T.V. series called Spenser for Hire, based on Robert B. Parker's Boston detective. Parker worked as a consultant on the scripts for the series and in 1999 wrote the screenplay for the T.V. movie of Small Vices. There is also a T.V. movie currently in production called Thin Air, featuring Joe Mantegna.