The opioid epidemic has already reached Paradise, and Police Main Jesse Rock must rush to stop the devastation in the most recent thriller in Robert B. Parker’s New York Times-bestselling series.

When a popular senior high school cheerleader dies of a suspected heroin overdose, it becomes clear the opioid epidemic has spread actually to the idyllic city of Paradise. It will be up to law enforcement chief Jesse Stone to unravel the supply chain and unmask the crooks behind it, as well as the investigation includes a clear about Robert B. Parker’s The Bitterest Pill epicenter: Paradise SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Home of the town’s best and brightest potential leaders and its own most vulnerable down-and-out teens, it’s a rich and bottomless market for dealers out of Boston seeking to expand in to the suburbs.

However when it involves drugs, the very people Jesse is wanting to protect tend to be those with the most to lose. As he digs deeper into the case, he finds himself battling self-interested administrators, hesitant instructors, distrustful schoolkids, and overprotective parents . and at the end of the range are the true bad guys, the ones having a profitable business they’d eliminate to protect.