In beautiful Tuscany, Italy life seemed like a golden paradise with the picturesque rolling hills, the luscious food and wine, and the generous warmth of the local people. That is why the body floating in the pristine blue waters of a villa's swimming pool was so incongruous. Hilary Wright, a proper English lady and next-door-neighbor had found it. Found him exactly-Ettore Fagiolo, a flamboyant local real estate agent and con artist-floating in Nigel and Robin Proctor's ugly, pink swimming pool. When Dr. Ruggero Di Girolamo, the magistrate in charge of the case, declares Ettore's death to be a murder, Hilary finds herself drawn into the investigation-first as one of the suspects-then as a conduit to the ex-pats-her fellow suspects-for Dr. Di Girolamo's investigation.