Jesse Stone has been the Sheriff of Paradise for over a decade and enjoys the small town life. It has been more exciting than he would have liked but never as busy as it was in L.A. That is until in one night three bodies are found, two of them, young girls, having been there for 25 years. Now the coldest case in Paradise history has just landed in Jesse's hands and people want it solved quickly. The city council members don't seem to understand 25 year old investigations take time.

Jesse needs his best people on this, but his best officer, Molly Crane, was close friends with the missing, now dead, girls and she is having a hard time focusing. Things only get worse as the mother of one of the girls returns to town and is promptly found dead.

Jesse Stone must solve the crimes both past and present before the killer strikes again, and the city council decides they no longer need his services.

Jesse Stone is a great character that has been written for years, even being turned into numerous television movies. The original author, Robert B. Parker, died in 2010 and Reed Farrel Coleman has taken up the mantel to keep the characters alive. He did a good job and THE DEVIL WINS keeps alive the life, loves and drinking of Jesse Stone, resulting in a really good mystery.