Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006)

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. small town, corruption, based on novel or book, money laundering, bank manager, massachusetts, police chief, prequel, murder, dating, drinking, dog, divorced, cross country, new england, murder investigation, ex-husband ex-wife relationship, lapd, chief of police, santa monica, california, yacht club, alcoholic cop, mystery, town council, city attorney