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Robert B. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series—a New York Times bestseller.
After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can’t help...
After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can’t help...
3) School days
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Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment.
4) Blue screen
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Sunny Randall is hired by rich producer Buddy Bollen to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint, when Erin's sister and personal trainer end up dead, and Sunny joins forces with Paradise, MA chief Jesse Stone to solve the case.
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Police Chief Jesse Stone is shocked when Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, an Apache hit man who escaped Stone's grasp ten years ago, arrives in his office warning Jesse to stay out of his way as he searches for a missing woman whose father wants her back and is willing to risk anything to help her escape from the violent gang she's involved with.
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Boone Adams: He was so smart he wrote half the English papers for the freshman class, when he wasn't getting drunk at night and waking up hung over in the morning. To him life was full of promise . . . just the ones it didn't intend to keep.
Jennifer Grayle: She was the campus golden girl, so rich, so pretty, that every boy wanted to take her out. Except Boone. He wanted to marry her.
John Merchent: He was tall and blond with blue...
Jennifer Grayle: She was the campus golden girl, so rich, so pretty, that every boy wanted to take her out. Except Boone. He wanted to marry her.
John Merchent: He was tall and blond with blue...
8) Sixkill
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Spenser is called in to investigate when actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of raping and murdering a young woman, and as Spenser tries to uncover the truth, he forms an unusual alliance with Jumbo's bodyguard, a young Native American known as Sixkill.
9) Appaloosa
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When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who...
10) High Profile #6
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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.
11) Stardust
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When Spenser is hired to protect television star Jill Joyce, he encounters a stalker who will stop at nothing to get his prey.
12) Painted ladies
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Hired by a museum to provide protection for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him.
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In 1879, lawman Wyatt Earp, accompanied by his wife and his brothers, leaves Dodge City and heads to Tombstone, Arizona, where he takes a job as deputy sheriff; encounters legendary gunfighters Doc Holliday, Clay Allison, and Bat Masterson; meets lovely showgirl Josie Marcus; and becomes embroiled in a deadly feud with Johnny Behan. Reprint.
15) Sea change
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When the body of a divorced Florida heiress washes ashore in Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone learns of the woman's past appearances in an erotic video and finds it suspicious that the victim's family seems unaffected by her death.
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Former Los Angeles police officer Jesse Stone, fired for drinking on the job, has taken a position as Chief of Police in Paradise, Massachusetts, but he learns that big city crime can happen even in the most bucolic of towns when the body of a young woman washes up on the shore of a local lake.
17) Split image
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Overwhelmed by a double homicide involving a mob hit, a high-ranking crime figure, and twin mafia wives, Jesse Stone increasingly succumbs to alcoholism before agreeing to assist fellow investigator Sunny Randall on a seemingly unrelated case.
18) Bad business
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When Spenser is hired by Marlene Cowley to see if her husband is cheating on her, Spenser encounters more than he bargained for, including a two-timing husband, a second investigator hired by the husband, corporate corruption, and a murder.
19) Night and day
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Investigating allegations of lewd conduct on the part of the local junior high principal, police chief Jesse Stone finds efforts to bring the woman to justice thwarted by a high-powered attorney.
20) Paper doll
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When Boston aristocrat Loudon Tripp hires Spenser to investigate his wife's murder, Spenser uncovers high-class scandals and a corpse that might not be dead after all.
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