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2) High profile
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Paradise, Massachusetts police chief Jesse Stone must investigate the murder of a controversial talk-show host and a young woman, found dead a few days later. The medical examiner reveals a heartbreaking link between the victims.
Author
Series
Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband--and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago ..."--Container.
4) Blue screen
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Sunny Randall is hired by rich producer Buddy Bollen to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint. Erin's sister and personal trainer end up dead and Sunny joins forces with Paradise, MA chief Jesse Stone to solve the case.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson 'Crow' Cromartie racing away after executing a lucrative and deadly heist. Now Crow's mission is to find Amber Francisco and bring her back to her father, Louis, in Florida. Amber lives with her mother, Fiona, and is mixed up with a Latino gang. When Louis orders Crow to kill Fiona and head aback with Amber, he can't follow through. Meanwhile, Jesse's relationship with...
8) The front
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
"D. A. Monique Lamont has a special job for Massachusetts state investigaotr Win Garano. As part of a public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she's sending him to Watertown to 'come up with a drama.' Garano knows that Watertown is home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up so they don't have to be so dependent on the state -- much to Lamont's anger. He senses a deeper...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Providing security assistance at the site of a local film shoot, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone arrests a distracted teen who has caused a horrible car crash only to find himself in a political conflict with wealthy locals, elected officials, and the district attorney.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
Massachusetts police chief Jesse Stone's investigation of a violent series of car thefts is complicated by political pressures, the summer tourist season, and the questionable goals of an ambitious PR executive.
11) Split image
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.
12) Painted ladies
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 38
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man's, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone's arrival in Paradise,...
14) Night and day
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone must deal in his own laconic way with the town's rights and wrongs, including a Peeping Tom, the Paradise Free Swingers, and a firestorm of protests at the junior high school.
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Series
Language
English
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A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.
18) Mercy
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Language
English
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Description
Police chief Cameron McDonald has lived in idyllic Wheelock, Massachusetts for most of his life, as has his beloved wife Allie. Their comfortable lives are thrown into tumult, however, when Cam's distant cousin Jamie arrives in town along with his wife's dead body. Jamie admits to the murder--a mercy killing to end the pain caused by a ravaging cancer. And now Cam is torn by his oath to uphold justice and his family obligations as chief of the Scottish...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Unaware of the long-standing grievances harbored by their divorced parents, three adult siblings embark on a tumultuous summer when the oldest, a successful Manhattan doctor, investigates his sister's chromosomal disorder against his mother's wishes.
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