Everything above the water looks serene and pretty, but the current below is anything but. Hugh (Big Mac) MacMilan has had a rough year, including a bitter divorce and a police caution and his job as a journalist at a provincial newspaper is on the line. He decides to take a year’s sabbatical to get his head together and maybe write a book. He settles in a small fishing town in Sicily…he doesn’t want love or trouble, just the pleasures of good food and lots of sun. But then a friend goes missing and the darker side of town begins to tumble out and Commissario Guidi gets involved. The book seems to write itself.