Jesse Stone - Death In Paradise (2006)

Tom Selleck at his best...

The second of a series we recently acquired, Death in Paradise is a great find because Tom Selleck is one of our favorite actors and we own the entire Magnum PI collection. In this series a more mature but still incredibly handsome Tom Selleck plays the character of the Chief of Police of a small New England town called Paradise, Massachusetts.

Jesse Stone is a former Los Angeles homicide detective who left life in the big city and is now underemployed, but still doing service to the community, which he loves. He is divorced from the "only woman he is able to love" and battles against alcoholism.

While life in Paradise is slow and for the most part the Chief of Police only gives out traffic or parking tickets, a series of murders take place, and in this episode a young student is murdered and a wife is battered by her alcoholic husband.

Don't miss it, the pace is slow but introspective, the plot is deep and intelligent, and you are left with feeling admiration for a man that has done wrong things while always attempting to do what is right!
July 13, 2008

Tom Selleck is Great

I love Tom Selleck in this role. He has the Stone character down really well. Even though the character in the book is supposed to be much younger, I can't imagine anyone but Selleck in this role. He makes an alcoholic, ex-LAPD cop turned police chief the kind of police chief I would want in my city. July 12, 2008

Jesse Stone

Another Tom Selleck Great Movie! For anyone considering this series, you will not be dissapointed with these movies. Action, Drama and he is still a hunk!! June 15, 2008

Selleck Stone series

This is a perfect role for Tom Selleck. A little rough around the edges but charming all the same. It is a great mystery entertainment type show with Tom as a small town police chief. People are not sure about his motives for taking the job but gradually buy in to his way of running the department and investigations May 29, 2008

Hardcore Magnum P.I.

Jesse Stone: Death In Paradise is a suspenseful, haunting, compelling action mystery. Tom Selleck is tough and almost merciless on crime in the small town of Paradise. Divorced and borderline alcoholic, Jesse is faced with solving the murder of a fourteen year-old problem teen girl. "Billie" haunts the police chief in very scary dreams.

Death In Paradise is graphic. Billie is referred to as "the town pump." Not much is held back except for an implied sex scene between Stone and a love interest. This makes the movie realistic and made for those who like their action and story hardcore.

Highly recommended. March 28, 2008

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