"Jesse Stone has bodies piling up and his job is in serious danger"

By: Reed Farrel Coleman

Genres: Mystery | Suspense

Posted: October 29, 2015

Jesse Stone has been the Sheriff of Paradise for over a decade and enjoys the small town life. It has been more exciting than he would have liked but never as busy as it was in L.A. That is until in one night three bodies are found, two of them, young girls, having been there for 25 years. Now the coldest case in Paradise history has just landed in Jesse's hands and people want it solved quickly. The city council members don't seem to understand 25 year old investigations take time.

Jesse needs his best people on this, but his best officer, Molly Crane, was close friends with the missing, now dead, girls and she is having a hard time focusing. Things only get worse as the mother of one of the girls returns to town and is promptly found dead.

Jesse Stone must solve the crimes both past and present before the killer strikes again, and the city council decides they no longer need his services.

Jesse Stone is a great character that has been written for years, even being turned into numerous television movies. The original author, Robert B. Parker, died in 2010 and Reed Farrel Coleman has taken up the mantel to keep the characters alive. He did a good job and THE DEVIL WINS keeps alive the life, loves and drinking of Jesse Stone, resulting in a really good mystery.

Book Summary

A Nor’easter blows into Paradise and churns up the past—in the stunning new addition to Robert B. Parker’s New York Times–bestselling series featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone.

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, but the dead girls were close friends of Jesse’s right hand, Officer Molly Crane. And things become even more complicated when one of the dead girls’ mothers returns to Paradise to bury her daughter and is promptly murdered.

It’s up to Police Chief Jesse Stone to pull away the veil of the past to see how all the murders are connected.

Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins by Reed Farrel Coleman

Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins

by: Reed Farrel Coleman

Jesse Stone #14

Putnam
September 1, 2015
On Sale: September 8, 2015
Featuring: Jesse Stone
352 pages
ISBN: 0399169466
EAN: 9780399169465
Kindle: B00SI0B7WE
Hardcover / e-Book

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