Paradise is rocked by the mayors untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone. The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. Its ostensibly suicide, but Jesses has his doubts . . . especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal. Two powerful moguls are fighting over the right to buy and develop the prime piece of real estate, and one of them has brought in a hired gun, an old adversary of Jesses: Wilson Cromartie, aka Crow. Meanwhile, the town council is debating if they want to sacrifice Paradises stately character for the economic boost of a glitzy new development. Tempers are running hot, and as the deaths begin to mount, its increasingly clear that the mayor may have standing in the wrong persons way.
