After rubbing the LA Sheriff's Department top brass the wrong way, Detective Stilwell has been exiled out to Catalina Island, where he has few deputies to help him deal with the drunken tourists that regularly end up in the holding cell. So when a body turns up in the harbor (near the rich tourists' private yachts, of course), Stilwell has to figure out how to juggle that investigation with the day-to-day drunk-and-disorderlies and a recent spate of poaching on the island's reservation. When the poaching investigation runs afoul of a local politician, it complicates the murder investigation too.
This is a solid police procedural and series starter from Connelly. While there are definitely some things that bugged me (such as the fact that Stilwell doesn't seem to have a first name, and nobody, including his girlfriend, seems to care), I did appreciate the relative realism of having to juggle multiple cases while handling a murder investigation.
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