All Fenella Woods wants is to have a nice lunch with her fiance, Police Inspector Daniel Robinson. When the cafe's owner manages to start a fire, though, things get complicated very quickly. As if the fire isn't enough for Daniel to investigate, a local undertaker wants to make a deathbed confession.Alfred Beck claims that while he was arranging for Kent Thomas's funeral, he overheard Kent's wife talking about how she'd managed to murder him. Kent's been dead and buried for over ten years, his death attributed to a heart attack. Of course, Tammy Thomas denies having done any such thing, but the police still exhume the body. When it turns out that Kent was poisoned, Daniel finds himself in the middle of another murder investigation.Can Fenella help Daniel work out who killed Kent Thomas? Can she discover the truth about Karl Carlson, the man behind the cafe fire? And can she go anywhere on the island without bumping into someone involved in one case or the other?