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.
A Norβeaster blows into Paradise and churns up the pastβin
the stunning new addition to Robert B. Parkerβs New York
Timesβbestselling 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 manβs,
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 Stoneβs arrival in
Paradise, but the dead girls were close friends of Jesseβs
right hand, Officer Molly Crane. And things become even more
complicated when one of the dead girlsβ mothers returns to
Paradise to bury her daughter and is promptly murdered.
Itβs up to Police Chief Jesse Stone to pull away the veil of
the past to see how all the murders are connected.
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