Jack Mooney is starting to settle in the sunsoaked island of SaintMarie, and he has some impossible mysteries to solve A chion poker player, apparently poisoned at the table in front of an astonished audience A novelist, murdered in a plot more surprising than anything he’s ever written And a spiritual leader, strangled at a time when all the suspects were each other’s alibis Jack’s laconic style belies a sharp mind and relentless determination He’s a brilliant detective, and he’ll need all his instinctive genius to solve these perplexing murders