- Fiction, Jesse Stone (Fictitious character), Police chiefs, Police
After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, the thirty-five-year-old Stone's future looks bleak. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons, John Murray, Compass Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781568955308
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