Review: Night Passage (Jesse Stone #1) by Robert B. Parker

Title: Night Passage (Jesse Stone #1)
Author: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Berkley Books (first published 1997)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001
Edition: ebook (416 pages)
Genres:

• Fiction
• Mystery
• Police Procedural

Series: Jesse Stone #1

Night Passage by Robert B. Parker

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Jesse Stone is a cop who is just about out of everything; his marriage, his job, a stable life. Resigning his job as a Los Angeles homicide detective, and battling a drinking problem, he accepts a job as Chief of Police for a small Massachusetts town. Expecting to find tranquility in small town life, he finds murder and duplicity instead.

This is the first Robert B. Parker novel I have read. His writing style is straight forward and I like Jesse Stone, flaws and all. Rather liberating to know that not even police officers are perfect. Yet Jesse Stone is smart, compassionate and does the right thing when it counts.