A View to Die For

<p>Wealthy handsome and totally unscrupulous developer Warner Hayden has big plans for an over-the-top luxury resort on Mount Ada overlooking Avalon Harbor and a collection of dark secrets to ensure the cooperation of key community leaders. His plans aren’t what Santa Catalina islanders want but he seems unstoppable — until he’s found dead on a steep slope below his property. Virtually everyone who’s anyone on the island has a motive for the murder. With a detective inspector borrowed from the mainland determined to pin the crime on visiting butterfly hunter Robert Michael Pyle and a host of Plein-Air Festival artists underfoot at every turn it’s up to young Detective Rhys MacFarlane and his islander friends to unravel the tangled webs of intrigue and deception.</p>