The annual Riverstone Beach Hop is a colourful festival that brings classic car enthusiasts together from far and wide to celebrate everything petrol-powered and chrome-plated. But on the morning of the event Charlie Baxter, the Chairman of the Classic Car Restoration Society, is found dead next to his beloved El Dorado, with a lungful of gasoline. Was this a petrol siphoning accident or something more deliberate? And does it have anything to do with the unidentified dead body found in Charlie's garage the day before?
The sleepy town of Brokenwood is never short of a murder to solve. Detectives Mike Shepherd and Kristin Sims are on the case.