It's late spring - the opening of fishing season - and a man is found dead, strangled by a riverside. Soon after, Chris Allard arrives to spend the summer in Sioux Lookout, swearing that he will stay away from any and all murders. No such luck. Locked in bitter conflict with a venal consultant, and his wife, Kate, Chris finds himself fielding two confessions to the crime. It's hot and the bugs are biting. If Chris doesn't find a solution things are going to get ugly. The Vermilion River Murder is the final and exciting volume in the Death in Sioux Lookout Trilogy.