by Sandy Frances Duncan and George Szanto
This is the first book in the series about the Islands Investigations International (III) detective agency. It is about two acquaintances, one American one Canadian who decide get hired to investigate a murder on Gabriola Island. The groundskeeper is found dead on the lawn of a Gallery on the island and the two, a woman who does fraud investigations for an insurance company and her gay friend, a former investigative reporter who is still grieving from the recent death of his partner, seek to clear the Gallery of involvement with the murder.
They do a very prelimnary investigation and supply a report to the Gallery owner. They do not solve the crime.
The gay man is being tormented by an unknown assailant, the person phone's in the night and just breathes into the phone or the answering machine, the man's tires are slashed and then he receives a death threat. He is very frightened. Then the two are asked by some other art dealers to try to find out how this gallery manages to find so many good art pieces "in the style of...."
As they investigate they bumble along and get themselves into very serious trouble and are almost killed.
They find out that there is more to the gallery (forgeries) and more to the greenhouse at the gallery (opium) than it first appears. They also figure out who murdered the groundskeeper and why and who was threatening the gay partner of the team.
I read the second book in the series previously. I enjoyed it, but think I liked this one better.
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