Trouble in Paradise - Robert B. Parker - 3 stars

This is the second installment to the Jesse Stone series and also part of my series-a-thon for this year. So I want to stay on top of the series and read them when I can. I did enjoy this one more than the first one, but still not quite up to the 4 star rating.
Synopsis
I will give the synopsis on this book since the cases do not carry over from one book to the next.
Robert Parker's Trouble in Paradise imagines an old-fashioned tough guys' world where most of the women are summed up by their figures and the men are measured by their ability to intimidate. Chief Jesse Stone of Paradise, Massachusetts, is Parker's hero again in this sequel to Night Passage. When he's not thinking about what his girlfriends look like under their clothes, Stone's touring his beat, hanging out at the Gray Gull Hotel bar to get intelligence on local thugs, or interrogating teens about their destructive pranks. But he has a vulnerable side, too, and Parker adds new layers of depth and complexity to his latest series character. Jesse's still reeling from his divorce. He and his ex-wife, Jenn, are not entirely ready to let go. In fact, Jenn has followed Jesse east from L.A. and is suffering in the Boston climate as one of the anchors on the local news. Romance with Jenn is further complicated by Jesse's ongoing attraction to attorney Abby Taylor and his emerging relationship with realtor Marcy Campbell.
Jesse's domestic troubles are gradually overshadowed, however, when ex-con Jimmy Macklin arrives in town. Macklin plans to pull "the mother of all stickups" on the ritzy Stiles Island in Paradise Harbor. He has figured out that the Stiles Island bridge, with its underpinning of utility cables and pipes, is a veritable lifeline to the mainland, and he's gathered a rogues' gallery of professional crooks and killers to help him take the bridge and make the island into a thieves' paradise. The one problem: Macklin never figured that Paradise, Massachusetts, would have a police chief as tough and resourceful as Jesse Stone.

The plot was ok with this book, it just did not blow me away is all. One of the things I do really like about the Author's writing style is his use of dialogue in his books. There is rarely a page with no dialogue and it keeps the pace of the book very upbeat and I love that because it keeps the pages turning. I felt like the plot was missing some depth though. It lacked some of the excitement that I love to read in a good mystery. So I am hoping that will improve some more the further I go in the series.

The characters I really enjoy and the authors really gives his readers a good feel for them. Jesse seems to be a very confused guy in the love department and feels out of sorts with being divorced from his wife. She does not make it easy for him to let go of the relationship, so I really don't care for that. It kind of has the Will Trent feeling without the psychotics. Jesse certainly can make the ladies swoon over him while he tries to perform his duties as Police Chief. I have to say that so far this series has been pretty character driven, now if the author can get the plots going I feel like it will be an amazing series.