This well-preserved hardcover is near fine, no marks, pages are tight and appear unread, the book is tight, square, and unmarked. The dust cover is unmarked, blue cloth boards, and bright gilt lettering on the spine of the book. Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker, published in 2008, is the seventh novel in the Jesse Stone series. This book sees Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, face a morally ambiguous situation involving an old adversary and a new threat to his town. Wilson Crow Cromartie, a hitman and fugitive introduced in the earlier Jesse Stone novel Trouble in Paradise, returns to Paradise. Hired by a powerful figure in Florida to track down a runaway teenage girl named Amber Francisco, Crow unexpectedly finds himself at odds with his employer. Instead of completing his mission, Crow decides to protect Amber from her dangerous father and his criminal network.