Stranger in paradise
Ten years after hit man Crow Cromartie escapes with the spoils of a lucrative heist, Massachusetts police officer Jesse Stone is astonished when the fugitive enlists his cooperation with a job gone bad involving a young woman whose father wants her killed.
| Main Author: | Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Berkley Books,
2009, c2008.
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| Series: |
Jesse Stone novels ;
7. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
| Summary: |
Ten years after hit man Crow Cromartie escapes with the spoils of a lucrative heist, Massachusetts police officer Jesse Stone is astonished when the fugitive enlists his cooperation with a job gone bad involving a young woman whose father wants her killed. |
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| Item Description: |
"The Jesse Stone novels" Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. |
| Physical Description: |
306 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
042522628X 9780425226285 |
| Author Notes: |
Robert Brown Parker is an American fiction writer of mysteries. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and earned his BA degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He went on to earn his master's degree in English literature from Boston University. He started his career working in advertising. After some years, he went back to school to earn his PhD in English from Boston University in 1971. He then began his writng career while teaching at Northeastern University. He decided to become a full-time writer in 1979. His most popular works were the 40 novels written about the private detective Spenser. The ABC Television Network developed the television series "Spenser: For Hire", based on the character in the mid-1980s. Parker also wrote nine novels based on the character Jesse Stone and six novels based on the character Sunny Randall. On January 18, 2010, Robert Parker died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography) |