Night Passage (Jesse Stone Series, Book 1)

First printing hardcover in fine condition. Pages clean, crisp, and unmarked. Boards and dust jacket clean and unmarked. Night Passage by Robert B. Parker (1997) opens the Jesse Stone series, introducing a former LAPD homicide detective who relocates to the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts as police chief. Stone is battling a failed marriage and a drinking problem — qualities that led the town's corrupt leadership to hire him, expecting he'd be easy to control.