This culinary cozy mystery opens on a perfect, sparkling, turquoise morning on St. Croix, that jewel of an island in the Caribbean, where a vacation resort is about to be completely disrupted by the arrival of a quirky collection of cooks, all intent on winning an international chef competition. An ideal beach read, the mysterious disappearance at hotel manager Nola Stewart's resort will have you guessing along with her as she tries to figure out who would resort to murder and why.