Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Jesse Stone Death in Paradise is a 2006 American television mystery film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, and Kohl Sudduth. Based on the 2001 novel Death in Paradise by Robert B. Parker, the film is about a small town police chief and struggling alcoholic who investigates the murder of a teenage girl whose body is found floating in a lake. The case brings the former LAPD homicide detective into the affluent world of a bestselling writer who exploits troubled teens, and the violent world of a Boston mobster. Filmed on location in Nova Scotia, the story is set in the fictitious town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Jesse Stone Death in Paradise is the third in a series of nine television films based on Parkers Jesse Stone novels. The film first aired on the CBS television network April 30, 2006.
State homicide commander Captain Healy Stephen McHattie delivers his autopsy report to Jesse, who learns that the girl drowned, and alcohol and muscle relaxer were found in her blood. The fourteenyearold girl was probably in the water for three weeks, and was pregnant. Soon after, Jesse goes to the high school and meets with head mistress Dr. Lilly Summers Orla Brady who identifies the owner of the ring, William Hooker Royce Matt Barr, an allAmerican athlete at the school. Later, when asked about the ring, Hooker tells Jesse that he briefly dated a girl named Billie Bishop and had given her his ring when he broke up with her. Jesse returns to the school and learns from Lilly that Billie was a former Astudent before coming to Paradise two years earlier when something changed her. He visits her parents and learns that she was thrown out of her home following a dramatic change in her behavior and academic performance. In the coming days Jesse and Dr. Summers become involved romantically.While working to solve Billies murder, Jesse deals with a domestic violence case involving Jerry Snyder John Diehl, a loser who enjoys viciously beating his wife Debra Christofferson. Jesse and officer Molly Crane Viola Davis try to convince Mrs. Snyder to leave her husband and she eventually does. Meanwhile, Jesses investigation leads him to Sister Mary John Kerri Smith, a Catholic nun who runs the shelter where Billie sought refuge. Sister Mary provides Jesse with a phone number that Billie gave her in case of an emergency. Jesse soon dismisses Hooker as a suspect and turns his investigational focus on local writer Norman Shaw Gary Basaraba, a wellconnected citizen with ties to the Boston mob, as the prime suspect. It was his phone number that Billie provided to the Sister Mary. Shaw purportedly has a predilection for young girls. ........
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