Tom Newberry leaves his detective agency in the hands of Barry Noonan, his former NYPD partner, when he becomes Police Chief in Fleming Beach, a quiet village on Long Island's south shore. When the Memorial Day weekends kicks off with a dead body found in the doorway of a gas station on his first day on the job Tom assigns the case to his protege Jeremy Demchek, a Fleming Beach detective and former beat-cop from one of New York's west side precincts. Meanwhile Barry, aided by his two part-time investigators, takes on a murder case of his own when Jimmy Rizzo, a high-priced Queens attorney is found dead in his Forest Hills office. Caught short-handed when a Jamaica bail-bondsman calls the agency, Barry hires Harry O'Rourke, a former NYPD detective with a checkered past, to go after Ron Bibby, a boxer-turned-burglar, and bring him back to face trial."