A strong second showing for Jesse Stone

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	• Trouble in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels) Robert B. Parker G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1998 - 324 pages average customer review:based on 59 reviews view larger image
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Flamingo Blood Rains Thin in Paradise

TROUBLE IN PARADISE, # 2 in Parker's Jesse Stone series, is a quietly seething thriller with explosives to boom. In this type of deep plot action, here's how one chapter should end and the next one begin:

Chapter ending:

>> When the police car was halfway across, the bridge began to ripple. The ripple turned into a heave. And, as the sound of the explosion came rolling into the real estate office, the bridge went up and the police car went with it, somersaulting slowly in among the pieces of the disintegrating bridge. One of its doors blew away and the hood tore off, and the car languidly turned over and planed onto the gray harbor and disappeared....> "Exploded?" Jesse said on the radio. "Twenty calls at least, "Molly said. "At least five people said there was a police car on the bridge when it went."

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A strong second showing for Jesse Stone

Jesse Stone is a great character and this book is a strong second showing for him. "Trouble in Paradise" begins with Jesse on one of his midnight insomniac rambles. When a homosexual couple has their house burned down, he discovers that some teenaged trouble-makers had a hand in it. Determined to set things right, he uses some less-than-honest tactics to get them to confess. While it seems to set one of the boys on the right track, a pair of brothers from a rich family have their parents threaten first to sue for wrongful arrest and when that doesn't work, their mother tries to have Jesse removed from his position.

Also, a career crook named Macklin and his girlfriend have come to town and are planning the heist to end all heists - they plan to clean out Stiles Island, a rich community connected to Paradise by a bridge over the harbor. Never one to plan small, Macklin decides to isolate the island and rob all the homes, businesses and the bank. Can Jesse find out what is happening in time to stop it?

Well-plotted, intricate and engaging, this book is what a police procedural/thriller is all about. Don't miss it!

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NOT SPENSER BUT JUST AS GOOD

Read most of Robert B. Parker's work down through the years and finally ventured into the Jesse Stone novels. Very good writing, lifelike and interesting characters, with Stone being unlike Spenser and more what I would expect Parker himself to resemble.

Though I like Jesse Stone, easy guy to emphasize with, cannot say I find common ground with him. On the job he is professional and proficient, yet off the job he drinks too much and womanizes too much and cannot get off the dime with his ex-wife. I guess one reason I cannot find common ground with Jesse is that most ex-husbands could not have the love for their troubled ex-wife as does he, when the ex-wife seems unwilling or unable to make a decision whether or not she wants a life with him. Jenn Stone represents a huge problem to both him and herself, and re-marriage is pretty much proven not to be a good idea. Be interesting to follow Jesse and see how he matures to handle all the trouble that will certainly follow from these wrinkles in his personal life.

With all the other reviews listed you need nothing from me as to plot, but I will say that this one seems more like one from either Dutch Leonard or Ed McBain. Certainly no insult meant, only meant as a compliment to the writing genius of Robert B. Parker. I like this book and the Jesse Stone character. Real joy to read.

Read and enjoy, I know I will!

Semper Fi.

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Trouble in Paradise

I was very pleased with my purchase and there were no problems with delivery and the product came in a timely manner.

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Robert B. Parker and his legendary Spenser series have long been considered the ne plus ultra of detective fiction. But the critics' praise for Jesse Stone's debut in Night Passage proved there was room for an addition to the Parker literary canon. "A novel as fresh as it is boldParker's sentences flow with as much wit, grace, and assurance as ever, and Stone is a complex and consistently interesting new protagonist. His speedy return will be welcome" (Newsday). Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts coast town of Paradise. James Macklin sees Stiles Island as the ultimate investment opportunity: all he needs to do is invade the island, blow up the bridge, and loot the island. To realize his investment, Macklin, along with his devoted girlfriend, Faye, assembles a crew of fellow ex-cons --all experts in their fields--including Wilson Cromartie, a fearsome Apache. James Macklin is a bad man--a very bad man. And Wilson Cromartie, known as Crow, is even worse. As Macklin plans his crime, Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone has his hands full. He faces romantic entanglements in triplicate: his ex-wife, Jenn, is in the Paradise jail for assault; he's begun a new relationship with a Stiles Island realtor named Marcy Campbell; and he's still sorting out his feelings for attorney Abby Taylor. When Macklin's attack on Stiles Island is set in motion, both Marcy and Abby are put in jeopardy. As the casualties mount, it's up to Jesse to keep both women from harm. Filled with "light, shade, texture, and complexity" (The Boston Globe), Trouble in Paradise is the work of a master.

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