Jack Mooney is starting to settle in the sun-soaked island of Saint-Marie, and he has some im ossible mysteries to solve. A cham ion oker layer, a arently oisoned at the table in front of an astonished audience. A novelist, murdered in a lot more sur rising than anything he’s ever written. And a s iritual leader, strangled at a time when all the sus ects were each other’s alibis. Jack’s laconic style belies a shar mind and relentless determination. He’s a brilliant detective, and he’ll need all his instinctive genius to solve these er lexing murders.