The marina of a small town on the Gulf Coast of Florida's Panhandle is awash in more than salt water. Somebody local is bringing in drugs from Mexico. How and by whom is it being done? Police detective Joe Phillips and his wife Maryanne, the local bank trust officer, share their skills to investigate a murder that leads them to an intricate money-laundering scheme with a shocking twist. Join them as they risk upsetting the local uppercrust by their persistent—and succesful—probing of a crime wave their town has never seen before.