Jesse Stone: Stone Cold

Stone Cold is a 2005 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Jane Adams and Reg Rogers.

Based on the 2003 novel Stone Cold by Robert B. Parker, the film is about the police chief of a small New England town who investigates a series of murders that occur with the same modus operandi.

Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) is the police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts - a coastal town north of Boston.

On a November night, a body is discovered on a rocky shoreline by Jesse's deputy, Officer Luther "Suitcase" Simpson (Kohl Sudduth).

Jesse checks the photos from the parking lot of the second murder and discovers the car is registered to someone who matches on the list of gun owners in Paradise, a man named Andrew Lincoln (Reg Rogers).

Assisted by Officer Molly Crane (Viola Davis), Jesse discovers the identity of the three boys who raped Candace.

After one of the rapists, Bo Marino (Shawn Roberts), is brought in on drug charges, Jesse discovers photos in the boy's possession of the naked Candace being raped.

One afternoon, while walking through a park trying to reach Jesse on her mobile phone, Abby is murdered by the Lincolns in cold blood.

In the film, Jesse sets up the Lincolns at Candace's house; in the novel, the final shootout takes place in a mall.

In his review for DVD Talk, Preston Jones wrote: Stone Cold doesn't break any new ground and it isn't particularly shocking, but it is competent and enjoyably diverting for what it is—a handsomely mounted, well-acted murder mystery that has aspirations towards gritty, Forties-style noir homage but settles for merely being an occasionally chiaroscuro entertainment.