How can there be serious crime on this small island? Too hard to escape with only a ferry and besides, everyone knows everyone else. Gossip makes secrets common knowledge in minutes. Yet, Carl Jenson is found in bed with a hunting knife sticking out of his chest.
Big city detective Mattie Carlyle is sent out to help laid back Cal Lockhart investigate the murder. Can their conflicting styles find common ground? Knocking heads one moment, attracted to each othere the next, will either prevail? And can the murderer be uncovered? With the victim's home-wrecking history, should it be called a murder...or perhaps retribution?