Death in paradise
(2009, original release: 2001)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/PARKER,R

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Mysteries MYSTERY/PARKER,R Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Berkley Books, 2009
EDITION
Berkley mass-market edition
DESCRIPTION

305 pages ; 20 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780425187067, 0425187063 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001

The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his team-mates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late summer twilight. But then a voice, scared, calls out to him from the edge of a nearby lake. He walks to the sound, where two men squat at the water's edge. In front of them, face down, is something that used to be a girl. The local cops haven't seen anything like this, but Jesse's LA past has made him all too familiar with floaters. This floating girl hadn't committed suicide, she hadn't been drowned: she'd been shot, and dumped, discarded like trash. Before long it becomes clear that the dead girl had a reputation and a taste for the wild life; and her own parents can't even be bothered to report her missing, or admit that she once was a child of theirs. All Jesse has to go on is a young man's school ring on a gold chain, and a hunch or two