Stranger in Paradise is a 2008 crime novel by Robert B. Parker, the seventh in his Jesse Stone series.

Unfortunately Jesse cannot arrest him because the statute of limitations has run out for the Stiles Island robbery Crow was involved in ten years earlier that cost residents over $20 million in cash.

He asks for the whereabouts of the girl, but when a gangbanger named Puerco tries to get tough, Crow shoots and kills him.

Instead he calls Chief Stone and relates the story to him, even admitting the murder of Puerco, claiming self-defense.

Later when Amber’s boyfriend, the gangbanger Esteban, discovers who she is he contacts Francisco in Florida and accepts the contract on Fiona.

The Horn Street gangbangers drive by and open fire on Crow who dives over the sea wall and disappears.

Immediately the police surround them, but before they are arrested one of the Florida mobsters named Romero walks up to Esteban and shoots him dead.

Still rich from his Stiles Island caper ten years earlier, he involves himself in this situation simply to alleviate his boredom, and for sex.

During his stay he beds Marcy Campbell, the hostage he protected ten years earlier, and Jesse’s right-hand woman Molly Crane while her husband and kids are away.

[1] A subplot involves a rich Paradise woman named Miriam Fiedler trying to close down a preschool for minority children on a piece of land called the Crown Estate.

She raises concerns about that element drawing gang activity to the community and lowering property values.

Suit then tells Jesse that Miriam has been asking questions about him trying to find out if he might accept a bribe to help close the school.