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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 4
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English
Description
Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult, and dangerous, and with the added pressures from the town selectmen and the media, the heat is turned up on Jesse. He's spending too much time with the bottle-and with his ex-wife -- neither of which helps him, or the case. And the harder these outside forces push against him, the more Jesse retreats into himself, convinced-despite all the odds-that it's up to him alone to stop...
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 3
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English
Description
Former Los Angeles police officer Jesse Stone, fired for drinking on the job, has taken a position as Chief of Police in Paradise, Massachusetts, but he learns that big city crime can happen even in the most bucolic of towns when the body of a young woman washes up on the shore of a local lake.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 1
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English
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A broken marriage and a drinking problem propels LAPD cop Jesse Stone into accepting what he believes will be a peaceful job as police chief in the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts, but he quickly learns that the surface quiet of the community masks a hotbed of crime, and he must choose whether he will be a hero or a dupe.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 6
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English
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Police Chief Jesse Stone must cope with two murders in his town in less than one week. When a sad link between the deaths is discovered, Stone becomes involved in an investigation that is malevolent and frightening.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 2
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English
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Jesse Stone, police chief in the small coastal town of Paradise, Massachusetts, is faced with one of the most dangerous and personal cases of his career when nearby Stiles Island, a wealthy community accessible only by bridge, is attacked by robber James Macklin who sees the opportunity for the ultimate score.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
The body in the trunk was just the beginning. Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also happens to be Rebecca's twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise...
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 10
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English
Description
Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season when a string of car thefts disturbs what is usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Pressure from the town politicians only increases when another crime wave puts residents on edge. Jesse confronts a personal dilemma as well: a burgeoning...
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Things are getting strange in Paradise, Massachusetts. Police Chief Jesse Stone is called to the junior high school when reports of lewd conduct by the schoolś principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station. Ingersoll claims she was protecting the propriety of her students when she inspected each girlś undergarments in the locker room. Jesse would like nothing more than to see Ingersoll punished, but her high-powered attorney husband stands...
Series
Jesse Stone volume part 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Stone is a quiet chief of police in a cold, gray, seaside town. When a serial killer strikes, this tough cop is in the thick of it. Add his girlfriend, an ex-wife and a sexy defense attorney, and things really heat up.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 5
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English
Description
Jesse Stone investigates the murder of heiress Florence Horvath after her body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it's over.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 16
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English
Description
Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancee by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protege, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last 40 years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master recording...
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 7
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English
Description
Police Chief Jesse Stone must work with Apache hit man Wilson "Crow" Cromartie to rescue a troubled teenaged girl who is mixed up with members of a Latino gang.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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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,...
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Sunny Randall mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
When Sunny Randall is hired to protect Erin Flint, a rising movie star, she soon finds herself investigating the murder of Erin's sister.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But those concerns get put on the back burner when a major Boston crime boss is brutally murdered. Despite all evidence...
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Jesse Stone is back on the job after a stint in rehab, and the road to recovery is immediately made bumpy by a series of disturbing and apparently racially motivated crimes, beginning with the murder of an African American woman. Then, Jesse's own deputy Alisha -- the first black woman hired by the Paradise police force -- becomes the target of a sophisticated frame-up. As he and his team work tirelessly to unravel the truth, he has to wonder if this...
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short when a young woman is found murdered and her boyfriend, a son of one of Paradise's most prominent families, is missing...
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Jesse Stone volume part 6
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jesse starts moonlighting for one of his friends after he is suspended. He investigates a series of murders in Boston that he believes are all connected to a notorious mob boss.
Series
Jesse Stone volume part 5
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chief Stone juggles investigations of a kidnapped boy and the attempted murder of a Boston detective.
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