- Jessica's vacation to Honolulu becomes chaotic when the son of her host vanishes during a hotly contested U.S. Senate election.
- After an exhausting foreign book tour, Jessica checks in at the Kinkaid Oahu hotel, a penthouse suite, compliments of the owner Matt Kinkaid, who refuses to consider selling the hotel. Meanwhile, Matt's son Jeff is running for Senator against his brother Danny's boss D.A. Randall 'Randy' Thompson. Danny is working on a dirty Southeast Asian finance investigation involving banker Brett Reynolds (who attempting to finance Randy's campaign) and Martin Osborn, to which end financial whiz Joe Yoshanaga just entered the banks service. After his grandmother Rebecca tells Jessica that Danny recently had a suspicious diving accident, he has a swim and a masked diver in a motorboat throws shark bait around him. A search for Danny doesn't find anything. Joe breaks into Reynolds' PC to send his personal files by modem to the abandoned sugar mill. Based on Danny's missing mountain bike, Jessica thinks he is hiding at the same sugar mill. Danny's girlfriend, police Detective Sharon Matsumoto, and Jessica find him there holding a gun and standing over family gardener Ben Kamaka's corpse. He explains how he got away from the sharks and what he'd been up to in the meantime. The Kincaid campaign released a video of Randy Thompson kissing an young Asian girl, but Jessica realizes it's actually his illegitimate Vietnamese daughter. Forensic evidence suggests Matt could be the killer but there's more apparently insignificant details, which inspire Jessica at Ben's funeral.—KGF Vissers
- In Hawaii to rest after a far-east book tour, Jessica Fletcher is also visiting the Kincaid family. Family matriarch Rebecca Kincaid is an old friend as is her son Matt, but they're all quite busy. Her son Jeff is running for the U.S. Senate and there is some division between grandson Danny, Jeff and Matt Kincaid, over whether they should use video of Jeff's opponent kissing an attractive young woman. Danny had threatened to quit the campaign if they go forward. Liz Dougherty is Jeff's PR rep and also his fiancée and she's all for using what they have. Danny is also an assistant DA investigating Brett Reynolds who may be buying politicians. Danny has had two attempts against his life and now someone is trying to frame him for the murder of Ben Kamaka, a Kincaid employee. Jessica works with Danny Kincaid's girlfriend Det. Sharon Matsumoto to solve the case.—garykmcd
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