How long does it take to read Death in Paradise?
Death in Paradise by Robert B. Parker takes about 5 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Jesse Stone
Previous: Trouble in Paradise Next: Stone Cold
About 5 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 294 pages, about 80,850 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his teammates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late-summer twilight. But then a frightened voice calls out to him from the shore of a nearby lake. There, two men squat at the water's edge. In front of them, facedown, is something that used to be a girl.". "The local cops haven't seen anything like this before, but Jesse's L.A. past has made him all too familiar with floaters. This girl hasn't committed suicide, she hasn't been drowned: she's been shot and dumped, discarded like trash. Before long it becomes clear that she must have had a taste for the wild life; and her own parents can't be bothered to report her missing, or even admit that she once was a child of theirs. All Jesse has to go on is a young man's school ring on a gold chain, and a hunch or two."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Police, Jesse Stone (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police chiefs, Jesse Stone (Fictional character)