"Tin Star" is set in a remote Canadian mountain town, where the opening of a new oil refinery fronted by the mysterious Mrs. Bradshaw introduces the small town to a world of drug-dealers, prostitution and organized crime. Police chief Jim Worth is thirsty for revenge after the murder of a member of his family.
Malachy and Jake Doyle are father and son private detectives taking on cases (and trying to keep Jake from being constantly beaten up)
in St. John's, Newfoundland.