An alcoholic cop is fired from the LAPD and starts a new life in a Boston suburb, where the town board recruits him as chief of police. During an investigation into the death of his predecessor, he gets caught up in what seems to be a straightforward case of domestic abuse, but ends up on the trail of a money-laundering conspiracy. Detective thriller, starring Tom Selleck, Stephanie March and Stephen Baldwin.

A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.