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ISBN: 1842431595
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Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 336pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: September 2005

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Robert B Parker is the bestselling author of more than 30 books, including Small Vices, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise and Hush Money along with Family Honor and Perish Twice, the first two Sunny Randall mysteries (all published by No Exit). He lives in Boston.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problems into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dump him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. He is shocked, however, when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise hires him as their police chief. Once on board he doesn't have to look for trouble in Paradise - it comes to him. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption - replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero - or the deadest of dupes.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"......Parker packs more meaning into a whispered "yeah" than most writers can pack into a page..." - The Sunday Times

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

"......Parker's dialogue is always cutting and laugh out loud funny......" - Donna Leon,

"...The spare style of Parker's third-person narrative cleans the air..." - Marilyn Stasio, New York Times