Night Passage: The first Jesse Stone novel (A Jesse Stone Mystery Book 1)

The First Jesse Stone MysteryAfter a busted marriage kicks his drinking problems into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dump him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak.So he's shocked 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.'as richly novelistic as anything Parker has ever written ...light, shade, texture, and complexity'Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe'The spare style of Parker's third-person narrative cleans the air'Marilyn Stasio, New York Times'A novel as fresh as it is bold ...

Stone is a complex and consistently interesting new protagonist'Newsday