"For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, ... she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation--until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to an old friend, Rik...

Cameron McDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the town's residents by blood and honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he has killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isn't as clear to Cam's wife, Allie. While she is devoted...

Orchid Beach, Florida, chief of police Holly Barker, still recuperating from the death of her fiancé, is surprised to find that a dangerous scam in Miami has reached as far as her quiet town.

A broken marriage and a drinking problem propels LAPD cop Jesse Stone into accepting what he believes will be a peaceful job as police chief in the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts, but he quickly learns that the surface quiet of the community masks a hotbed of crime, and he must choose whether he will be a hero or a dupe.

When Appaloosa police chief Amos Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch.

Army Sergeant Holly Barker has just lost a sexual harassment case against Colonel Bruno, her former boss. Fortunately the chief of police in Orchid Beach, Florida, is looking for a new deputy chief so Holly takes the job. Unfortunately the police chief and his best friend are murdered. Fortunately Holly acquires a Doberman, Daisy, and a lover, Jackson.

The body in the trunk was just the beginning. Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also happens to be Rebecca's twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise...

Things are getting strange in Paradise, Massachusetts. Police Chief Jesse Stone is called to the junior high school when reports of lewd conduct by the schoolś principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station. Ingersoll claims she was protecting the propriety of her students when she inspected each girlś undergarments in the locker room. Jesse would like nothing more than to see Ingersoll punished, but her high-powered attorney husband stands...

While struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, Jesse stone investigates a mob-related double homicide.

Jesse Stone investigates the murder of heiress Florence Horvath after her body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts.