In fact, Susan s co-workers and family are recommending a vacation. There she quickly meets Ascension, a local who has business and family connections to nearly everyone on the island. Vacation on St. Stephen s is hardly a rest cure. Among other things, Susan has a energetic evening at Ascension s home with his wife and eleven children, goes parasailing with some of Ascension s relatives, falls into a tree, injures her ankle, becomes acquainted with the island s principal drug dealer, gets shot at, discovers Ascension s dead body, and spends a drunken evening with the local chief of police. And so it goes.
Crime never sleeps.
Everyone s sleeping with someone for ambition or plain ol lust. Susan s life gets more complicated on all fronts. Well, maybe it is the bank fraud case with all its auxiliary subplots. In the midst of all the mayhem and murder, there are occasional glimpses of humor. Some of the cast of players are more caricatures than fully developed characters.