Ian Murdoch is resting at his island cottage on Lake Muskoka, trying to recover from the tragic death of his wife. When a body floats ashore, he’s immediately thrust back into his role as a homicide investigator for the Ontario Provincial Police. Things get even more complicated with the discovery of a headless skeleton on an abandoned farm in the nearby rural hamlet of Vankoughnet.

Along with the young female officer assigned to help him, Murdoch is rapidly drawn into a web of intrigue, treachery and greed that involves the history of Second World War German prisoners at Camp 20 in Gravenhurst, the RMS Segwun, oldest operating steamship on the continent, and an elderly lady with an astounding secret she’s kept for nearly sixty years.

Still recuperating from his adventures in Murder in Muskoka, Ian Murdoch rescues a stranded boater on Lake Muskoka. Little does he realize the man has just stolen a fortune in gold coins from a wealthy Florida crime boss named Jose de Sa. And de Sa will do anything to recover his life’s obsession.

It’s not long before the elderly de Sa and his gorgeous young wife, Xiomara, track the missing treasure to Muskoka. When bodies start to pile up faster than answers, Murdoch joins the police investigation and soon finds himself the target not only of de Sa’s hired thugs, but of the charms of the lovely Xiomara.

Again Murdoch must navigate the treacherous shoals of greed as the action speeds through the rocky channels of Lake Muskoka.

Ian Murdoch is looking forward to a quiet autumn in Muskoka after the emotional and physical pummelling he has endured on recent cases.

The calm, however, is short lived. Workers demolishing the once-grand Oakland Resort near Port Carling make a grisly discovery: a skeleton clutching a peculiar artifact that seems to have a link to his OPP boss. Then a prominent Toronto lawyer is murdered and his attractive secretary takes refuge on Browning Island in Lake Muskoka. If that wasn’t enough, the man convicted of killing Murdoch’s partner in an earlier case suddenly threatens to go public with damaging information.

Once more Murdoch is caught up in non-stop action and a plot that twists and turns more than the rocky Muskoka shorelines.

Spring has arrived in Muskoka. It may be a new season, but old memories and old cases still haunt Inspector Ian Murdoch.

Xiomara de Sa, combining beauty and danger in one tantalizing package, reappears with demands that tax both Murdoch’s emotions and his ability to protect her from a crime syndicate intent on eliminating her.

At the same time, Murdoch must contend with his OPP boss, who is distracted by his wife’s illness, and with colleagues obsessed with the seemingly far-fetched theory of a long-ago murder and a fortune in diamonds hidden at the old World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Gravenhurst.

When a former German POW now living in Gravenhurst is found dead by an excavation at the old prison site, the action and the theories really heat up.