Synopsis:
Havers asks to help on a case involving her neighbor's family in which a man's body is found on a beach. As she begins, Lynley arrives from an aborted honeymoon to assist. They find out that the murdered man had found out his future brother-in-law's illegal smuggling of people into England and threatened to say something. But in trying to bring in the murderer, Havers has to shoot the commanding officer in order to save her young neighbor and Lynley from drowning.