A dead woman found floating in the hot tub of an expensive vacation home rocks the tranquility of a Puget Sound island community. For the young couple who discovers the body it shatters their Valentine's Day love tryst and turns their lives upside down. Aaron Klein finds himself accused of the murder. Tami Stillwell is haunted by memories of a death in Texas four years before that was eerily similar. For Scottish forensic pathologist, Donald McLure, the death means an interruption to a quiet Sunday at home with his family. When the owner of the hot tub turns out to be Donald's former girlfriend from his days at Edinburgh University the case takes on a new complexion. Rebuilding his own life after his wife walked out on him Donald gets caught between a sense of duty to help out an old friend and a desire to impress the attractive young homicide detective in charge of the case. The investigation turns up unexpected connections to the past, connections that other people are eager to cover up at all costs. Donald encounters hostility and deceit as he stumbles onto secrets that challenge his assumptions and threaten his job and his life From the politics and sophistication of Seattle society to the caves, forests and waterfalls of the Olympic wilderness The Desolation Falls Mystery is the second adventure involving Scottish forensic pathologist Donald McLure. Naïve and vulnerable in personal matters, his dry observations let the reader view the rich sweep of life in the Pacific Northwest through fresh eyes.