Set largely on the bucolic shores of Lake Minnetonka, and charged with the excitement of amateur regattas, The Yacht Club Murders soon brings readers face to face with a series of dark deeds involving murder, romance, motorcycle gangs, and drug deals gone bad, with the Wayzata police and the FBI never far out of sight. The sailing is thrilling, the love triangle is poignant and fiery by turns, and the mystery surrounding the discovery of a body buried on the yacht club grounds grows deeper by the page.