Settling into his role as the new Chief of Police in the town of Paradise Massachusetts Stone investigates the brutal murder of a trouble teenage girl found floating in a local lake. He soon discovers that she was once a straight-A student but somehow wound up in a path of self-destruction leading to her early demise. With hardly any clues the case leads the former LAPD cop to the city where the local Boston mob does not respond too kindly to him. To make matters worse he must also deal with a case of domestic violence that ultimately turns deadly while struggling with his ongoing alcoholism his ex-wife & truly disastrous love life. As Stone learns more about the girl's unhappy past he begins to suspect that the affluent world of Boston might be involved & increasingly becomes obsessed with the case. Persistent in his determination to bring the killer to justice Stone will do whatever it takes to finally solve this Death In Paradise.