Jesse Stone:
Death In Paradise (2006)
crime
directed
by : Robert Harmon
featuring
: Tom Selleck - William Devane - Matt Barr - Edward Edwards - Gary Basaraba
running
time : 1 hour 27 minutes
Transplanted L.A. cop Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck)
attempts to solve the murder of a teenage girl while simultaneously dealing
with a deadly case of domestic violence in this mystery that marks the
third cinematic outing for novelist Robert B.Parker's eponymous detective.
Having recently settled into his position as the police chief of Paradise,
Massachusetts, Stone is troubled to learn that the body of a former straight-A
student has been found floating in a nearby lake. Later, as Stone delves
ever deeper into the case, he finds that the girl had grown increasingly
self-destructive in her last days and that her parents hadn't even bothered
to report her missing. His investigation around the quiet New England town
yielding little to go on, Stone ventures into the city to search for clues
and has a frightening brush with the Boston mob. With every inquiry Stone
makes, he appears to be moving farther away from the truth than ever before.
Though a disturbing instance of explosive domestic violence momentarily
distracts the detective from the task at hand, Stone's determination quickly
turns to obsession when he begins to feel as if he may finally be on track
to solving the case.