Jesse Stone is the lead character in a series of
detective novels written by
Robert B. Parker. They were among his last works, and the first series in which the
novelist used the
third-person narrative. The series consists of nine books, starting with
Night Passage (1997) and ending with
Split Image (2010), which Parker completed before his death in January 2010 but did not live to see published. The series was initially continued by Michael Brandman. In April 2014,
Reed Farrel Coleman assumed the writing of the series. The novels have been adapted as nine TV films. The first eight films were commissioned by
CBS, and aired from 2005 to 2012. A ninth film was picked up by the
Hallmark Channel, and aired on October 18, 2015.