The story follows Anna and her best friends while they are on spring break in Aruba *oooh fancy* but when one of her best friends turn up dead Anna finds herself trapped in a foreign country where everyone including her friends and family are questioning her innocence.
The striking thing about the ranking is that it includes islands such as Cyprus, a hive of offshore activity for the Russian mafia, and Aruba, a Dutch dependency in the Caribbean, which were not associated with laundering a few years ago.
Curaçao, with 135,000 people, voted in 2005 to become a separate and self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (a status already enjoyed by Aruba).
Smaller vessels of a few hundred tonnes chug from the mainland to the Dutch islands of Aruba or Curaçao, or from Guyana to the eastern Caribbean.The final destination is likely to be North America or Europe, sometimes via West Africa.
That is the case with Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old who vanished on May 30th on the last night of a high-school trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba.
Perhaps the conspirators were all vacationing in Aruba yesterday to escape the lashing autumn rains?
They said he then went to Costa Rica, whose government reports that a man travelling on a Venezuelan passport, believed to be Mr Montesinos, left on a private plane to Aruba in the Caribbean.
Curaçao and St Maarten will become self-governing territories, following the example of Aruba, a sixth Dutch-speaking island in the Caribbean which broke away in 1986.
The world's highest top rates of income tax, according to KPMG, an accounting firm, are found in Aruba (58.95%) and Sweden (56.6%).
Still less are the problems of Jamaica, which had 1,445 murders last year and whose gang wars spill over to New York.Assuming Ms Holloway is indeed dead, it is to be hoped that Aruba can bring her killer(s) to justice.
That might devastate the island: it depends on tourists, three-quarters of whom (530,000 last year) are Americans.What has been lost in much of the media storm is that Aruba, a self-governing unit of the Netherlands, may have something of a drug problem but is generally safe, prosperous and well-governed.
