Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels)
by Robert B. Parker
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Author: Robert B. ParkerEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-02-05
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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Book Review: Taking a long view
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a Jesse Stone novel. Crow, (Winston Cromartie), an Apache, has business in Paradise. He claims that a guy hired him to look for someone. Jesse informs Crow that he is going to try to put a case together against him. Crow is reputedly a contract killer.
Molly Crane and Suitcase Simpson, two of the officers in Jesse's police force, are given the case. A purported victim of Crow refuses to identify him and then is shocked to learn that he is present in the community and hasn't been arrested. Marcy Campbell is Jesse's girlfriend when he is having trouble with his former wife, Jenn, and she, Marcy, knows this. Jesse Stone is as laconic a speaker as Parker's other male hero, Spenser. Jesse plans to use the felony murder rule to beat the statute of limitations bar to prosecute Crow's prior criminal activity in Paradise.
Marcy was one of the hostages in the case and believes that Crow protected her from harm. A lot of people got killed in the incident, including two law officers, but the women hostages won't say anything against Crow Comartie. (The witnesses are also frightened.) Suit and Jesse surmise that Crow is looking for a woman because he is found in places women tend to be.
Jesse confesses that his job, chief of police, has narrowed the circle of his expectations. (He can't prevent crime, and sometimes can't solve crime.) Marshport, adjacent to Paradise, is inhabited mostly by Ukranians and Hispanics. Like Adrian Monk, Jesse has a therapist, Dix.
I will leave the reader to discover plot developments. Crow is a sort of mirror image of Jesse. Molly sees the parallels and similarities immediately. In usual Robert Parker fashion this is workman-like and entertaining. In this outing Jesse Stone bends some rules to achieve justice.
Summary of Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels)
Police Chief Jesse Stone faces his most fearsome adversary in the latest addition to the celebrated series.The last time Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, the Apache Indian hit man was racing away in a speedboat after executing one of the most lucrative and deadly heists in the town's history. Crow was part of a team of ex-cons who plotted to capture Stiles Island, the wealthy enclave off the Paradise coast, by blowing up the connecting bridge. Residents were kidnapped, some were killed, and Crow managed to escape with a boatload of cash, never to be seen again. Until now.
So when Crow shows up in Jesse's office some ten years after the crime, it's not to turn himself in. Crow is on another job, and this time he's asking for Jesse's help-by asking him to stay out of his way.
Crow's mission is simple: find young Amber Francisco and bring her back to her father, Louis, in Florida. It should be an easy payday for a pro like Crow, but there are complications. Amber, now living in squalor with her mother, Fiona, is mixed up with members of a Latino gang. And when Louis orders Crow to kill Fiona before heading back with Amber, he can't follow through. Crow may be a bad guy, but he doesn't kill women. It's up to Jesse to provide protection.
Meanwhile, Jesse's on-again, off-again relationship with ex-wife Jenn picks up steam as Jenn investigates the gang problem for her TV station. As they dig deeper, the danger escalates. The life of a young girl hangs in the balance, and saving Amber could be the miracle Jesse and Jenn need for themselves, too.
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