Death in Paradise

Pages: 289
Published: 2002
Language: English

Death in Paradise is the third novel in Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series. When the body of a teenage girl washes ashore, Chief Jesse Stone and his partner Suit begin an investigation that uncovers a dark undercurrent beneath the town's quiet surface. What starts as a murder case evolves into a hunt for a predator who has been exploiting the vulnerable for years. Gritty, atmospheric, and relentlessly paced, this is quintessential hardboiled crime fiction from one of the masters of the genre.

Prose complexity: 3/10

Dark Tense

Crime Hardboiled Mystery

Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker (1932–2010) was an American crime novelist best known for creating Spenser, the wisecracking Boston private investigator at the center of 40 novels beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript (1974). He also created the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall detective series and, starting with Appaloosa, a series of Westerns featuring Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. He served in the US Army in Korea and earned a PhD in English from Boston University, and in 2002 the Mystery Writers of America n...