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Title: Death in Paradise: A Jesse Stone Novel by Robert Forster, Robert B. Parker ISBN: 1-59007-071-2 Publisher: New Millennium Audio Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 (57 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Average Parker, Three and a half stars is closer than four.
Comment: I have read every book Mr.Parker has published. Some of those reads were great, some good, others middling and still others poor to horrid. This book, the third Jesse Stone novel, is a good, not great, read.
The story centers on the murder of the town tramp and a pedophilic prostitution ring, with a domestic abuse case and Stones drinking and love troubles tossed in for good measure.
These are all well traveled roads for a Parker protagonist, and no new trails are blazed with 'Death In Paradise'. The characters are all one dimensional, save for Stone, who is maybe one and a half dimensions. His ex-wife, Jenn, is still around, still in love with Stone, and still dating other men. Jesse has no shortage of amourous interludes either, yet they both yearn to be in each others life. Egads!
Despite the many flaws in this novel, Mr.Parker does indeed have a catchy prose style, making this read an easy, if not outright entertaining, one. The three and a half stars is more for the promise this book, and series, hold for future Parker novels. After three abysmal Spencer novels( Potshot, Hugger Mugger, Hush Money) and the recent Sunny Randal outing( Perish Twice), which would be best described as drek, Mr. Parker seems to back on a tad firmer footing.
Mayhaps it is time for Spencer to be retired and Jesse Stone become Mr.Parkers leading man. This series still has some legs to it and it would be intresting to see Parker delve more fully into Jesse Stones world. Stone is the most human, most believable, and in many ways, most intresting of all Parkers leads. Death In Paradise isnt great, but it is good and it may signal better works to come.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hey, let's welcome Jesse Stone!
Comment: It does look like this is a good time for Robert B. Parker to come up with a new character, and judging from this first book, Jesse Stone could be a winner. He's certainly different from Spenser. While he shows some wit, he's of a darker and brooding nature, having messed up his professional and personal lives by hitting the bottle too heavily. In fact, he even goes to a job interview after drinking and surprisingly gets hired as police chief in Paradise, Mass. He figures that he was hired in spite of his condition when the truth is he was hired because of his drinking...he appeared to be far easier managed than he turned out to be.
Obviously, Parker intends to have the two series interrelate to a degree. Vinnie Morris and Gino Fish appear in the story, although interestingly, they never interrelate with Stone. Somehow, I suspect that might change in future novels.
Like the Spenser novels, this is a fast and easy read. It's not quite as much a fun read maybe, but what the hey, it's good and satisfying light reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: Turn To Stone!
Comment: I think these Jesse Stone books just keep getting better and better with each release. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two books and I like this one even more.
I may be in the minority here, but I'm finding that I prefer Jesse Stone over Spenser.
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Title: Trouble in Paradise by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0515126497 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Night Passage by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425183963 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Stone Cold: A Jesse Stone Novel by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0399150870 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 29 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Perish Twice by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425182150 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Widow's Walk by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 042518904X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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