This is a detective novel with a difference as Annie Butcher is a very reluctant detective. She insists she is a teacher, she knows she is a successful one and she does not want to be drawn into anything else. She is too busy and she has other worries such as a wayward daughter and she is trying to keep an eye on her unsavory landlord, "fishy" one of her friends calls him. But, when one of her pupils dies under suspicious circumstances and another is mugged, she finds herself drawn deeper into a mystery involving drug dealing and people smuggling. Her life is placed in grave danger one stormy night on a wild beach.
Will Annie solve the jigsaw puzzle and will her friendship with the charming Chief Inspector develop into something more? This is the first of the Annie Butcher Mysteries introducing readers to the stoic Annie and her haphazard friends and family, the sequels will be following shortly.