Theo Stern's old friend, jazz musician, Steve Arnold hits Sheringham. But jazz is the last thing on Stern's mind when he finds that his friend is involved in a sinister tangle of violence and death. A brutal killing on a cross channel ferry and the arrival of a jazz musician to perform in a sleepy seaside town. Two totally unconnected events? So thinks private investigator, Theo Stern. But sinister happenings indicate otherwise and Stern finds himself sucked into a threatening entanglement of intrigue and death.