Jan Ewing goes to Coligny Plaza in Hilton Head. She walks around. A girl she knows from school, Karen Cox, dashes out of a jewellery store. A guy wearing a black sheath hood over his face is chasing her. Jan watches in horror as Karen screams and the guy shoots her. Karen falls headfirst into the lagoon in the middle of the plaza where there is an elaborate fountain, a statue of a mermaid, and ducks squawking. The guy wearing the hood leaps in after her.
When the murderer surfaces moments later, Karen Cox isn't with him. People scream as the guy in the hood dashes away and escapes. The police don't make it there in time to arrest him. Jan has just witnessed a murder in this young adult murder thriller by Linda Cargill first published in German by Cora Verlag and now published in Kindle form by Cheops Books.