Night Passage

Now that I'm sheltering in place, my movements limited by the threat of the coronavirus, I find I require familiar pleasures to compensate for my loss of familiar places and faces. So I decided to read a book I read more than seven years ago as a renewed introduction to a series of books by one of m......more

Night Passage by Robert B. Parker is a 1998 Jove publication. Jesse Stone, a fired alcoholic homicide cop from L.A., accepts a job offer as Chief of Police in the small community of Paradise, Massachusetts. His past worked in his favor, as certain citizens of Paradise would rather have an incompeten......more

Robert B. Parker writes a tough guy main character whose biggest flaw is his obsessive love of a woman who betrays him? Hmmmm…. I have the weirdest sense of deja vu…. By the late ‘90s RBP could, and frequently seemed to, crank out a Spenser novel in his sleep so he started doing other things like thi......more

Good mystery and police work This first volume in the Jesse Stone series is a well written, engrossing mystery. The characters are well developed with Stone being a sympathetic character despite his personal problems. The problem I had with the novel is its portrayal of a militia group as large, well......more

4 Stars. An auspicious beginning. The early chapters were all over the place. Disjointed, confusing. But don't worry, Parker has a way of bringing them together in an exciting finale which seems to have been purposeful from the start. We open with the firing of Police Chief Tom Carson of Paradise -......more