After a night of hard partying, four British tourists fall asleep on a pleasure boat off Mallorca. The next morning, however, three of them, Sheard, Kirsty, and Cara, slowly realize that the fourth, Lewis, is no longer there. Inspector Alvarez is disturbed by a phone call during his leisurely breakfast ordering him to find the missing man. As Alvarez quickly discovers, though, Lewis was no ordinary tourist. Even though his twentieth adventure takes...

Martinho, a poor Portuguese boy, and his family travel to the Spanish island of Majorca in hopes of finding work and a chance at a better life.

"Juliet Lyman is a senior executive at Yesterday Records. Music is her passion and she's very good at her job. That's why her famously philanthropic boss Gideon sends her to Majorca, Spain to work with a very tortured, but talented client. Lionel Harding is one of the best song writers of the 20th century, the multi-Grammy award-winning lyricist of the third most recorded song in history. But now he's 42 and six months overdue on his latest paid assignment....

Evidence of motive is the key to deciding whether the rich Englishman has died from suicide, accident or murder after a fall down a steep wall of rock on the island of Majorca. Alvarez uncovers several possible motives seeming to draw in just about every English person on the island.

British detective Miranda Blake and her German partner Max Winter must find a way to work together as they work to solve cases all across the Spanish island of Mallorca.