Murder - On Salt Spring?

How can there be serious crime on this small island in 1952? Too hard to escape with only a ferry and besides, everyone knows everyone else. Gossip makes every secret common knowledge in minutes. Yet, there's Carl Jenson in bed with a knife sticking out of his chest. Big city detective Mattie Carlyle is sent out to help laid back Cal Lockhart investigate the murder. From the start, they are at loggerheads one minute, strongly attracted the next. Aggressive investigation versus patient observation. Can they find a common ground? And can they solve the murder? With Carl's home-wrecking history, should it even be called murder - or perhaps retribution?