Thin ice: When Jesse Stone's friend and fellow cop is shot during a visit to Boston, Stone risks his life and career to solve the crime while also investigating the disappearance of a missing child.

Stone cold: Chief of Police Jesse Stone must track down a pair of serial killers and lead an investigation while trying to recover from alcoholism.

Death in paradise: Stone tackles the mysterious murder of a teenage girl and the case of a battered wife while struggling with his alcoholism.

No remorse: A series of murders in Boston draws Jesse Stone back into the fold, but when a crooked path leads to the city's most notorious crime boss, what at first appears to be the work of a serial killer becomes something even more sinister.

Bennefit of the doubt: Stone is forced back into action when a shocking double murder rocks the quiet town of Paradise.

Innocents lost: Jesse will stop at nothing to avenge the lost innocence and subsequent death of a young girl he once mentored.

Night passage: After moving to a quaint Massachusetts town, troubled Police Chief Jesse Stone takes on the high-profile case of the murder of his predecessor.

Sea change: Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime. But it's not just the victim's and killer's pasts that rise up to the surface-- it's his own, becoming the chilling focus of a riveting investigation that uncovers one shocking revelation after another.

Lost in Paradise: Jesse Stone takes some well-deserved vacation time and chooses to spend it in Boston, where the assistant State Homicide Commander has sought his expertise in evaluating a packet of cold case murders.