Monday, August 8, 2011

26. Stranger in Paradise - Robert B. Parker

Audio read by James Naughton
Random House Audio, 2008
$14.99
5 discs, 5 hrs.
Rating: 3.5

I'm writing this many months after I listened to it......This is not a Spenser, it's a Jesse Stone, who is the police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, a town on or near the Cape, if I remember right. He is visited by someone that Jesse knows is wanted, an Apache hitman named "Crow." And although Crow is the "bad guy," it seems that Jesse has some respect for him. Crow's looking for a young girl who grew up in the area and is now hanging with gangs. He is working for her father, who wants her brought to him in Florida. And Jesse's ex-wife is investigating gang violence for the TV station she works for. The story winds around itself and is solved in Parker's ever-clever, no-holes-barred way.

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