Death in Paradise

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i ROBERTB. PARKER I death in paradise A JESSE STONE NÖVEL Chief of Police Jesse Stone returns, to investigate 1 the murder of a troubled teenager in a seemingly bucolic New England town. "Parker may be the finest prose stylist in the genre." -The Denver Post The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his teammates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late-summer twilight. But then a frightened voice calls out to him from the shore of a nearby lake. There, two men squat at the water's edge. In front of them, facedown, is something that used to be a girl. The local cops haven t seen anything üke this • before, but Jesse's L.A. past has made him all too familiar with floaters. This girl hasn't committed ¦ suicide, she hasn't been drowned: she's been
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i ROBERTB. PARKER I death in paradise A JESSE STONE NÖVEL Chief of Police Jesse Stone returns, to investigate 1 the murder of a troubled teenager in a seemingly bucolic New England town. "Parker may be the finest prose stylist in the genre." -The Denver Post The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his teammates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late-summer twilight. But then a frightened voice calls out to him from the shore of a nearby lake. There, two men squat at the water's edge. In front of them, facedown, is something that used to be a girl. The local cops haven t seen anything üke this • before, but Jesse's L.A. past has made him all too familiar with floaters. This girl hasn't committed ¦ suicide, she hasn't been drowned: she's been
(Continued from front flap) % shot and dumped, discarded üke trash. Before long it becomes clear that she must have had a taste for the wild life; and her own parents can't be bothered to report her missing, or even admit that she once was a child of theirs. Ali Jesse has to go on is a young mans school ring on a gold chain, and a hunch or two. Fiiled with magnetic characters and the muscular writing that are Parker s trademarks, Death in Paradise is a storytelling masterpiece. "Jesse Stone is one of Róbert B. Parker's finer inventions. Another winner." -USA Today Róbert B. Parker is the author of nearly forty books, including two other Jesse Stone novels, Night Passage and Trouble in Paradise. He lives in Boston. m Vissza