Trevor A. Toussaint

A Jamaican man of the community battles depression and disillusionment.

David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.

Marcie and Mickey Haines are 16-year-old athletic twins. They're inseparable, leaving their mother, Leonore, feeling excluded. On the day of an important race for Marcie, Michael is hit by a car and killed. The next morning she wakes to find the house full of mourners, talking about Michael in the past tense.

Le détective Richard Poole est muté à Sainte Marie, une île des Caraïbes. Totalement inadapté au style de vie caribéen, Richard déteste le soleil, la mer et le sable et n'est pas habitué aux méthodes policières de Sainte Marie. Travaillant de pair avec l'exotique Camille, chaque semaine, Richard enquête sur des meurtres complexes et inhabituels.