Wedding planner Meg Duff is on a ferry to meet with a couple who are getting married on Manitoulin Island (a Canadian lake island in Lake Huron, in the province of Ontario.) While she is walking alone on the foggy deck of the ferry someone hits Meg from behind, ties her hands together, and throws her overboard. All she sees is the orange hood of a raincoat.

Jack Brooks, a crime reporter with Torchlight News in Toronto, recently wrote a story about what he believes is a serial killer he called the "Raincoat Killer". Three young women were murdered recently and a person wearing an orange raincoat was spotted at each crime scene. Jack thinks he is on to something and writes a story for his newspaper but the chief of police thinks the murders are unrelated and that Jack is being ridiculous. Jack's editor tells him to lay off the stories about the Raincoat Killer and take the rest of the week off. But Jack, following a hunch, heads to Manitoulin Island. Jack went on a walk-through of the crime scene of the latest victim a few weeks ago and saw some personal items scattered on the floor---pictures and flyers about wedding planner Meg Duff who lives on Manitoulin Island. Thinking there could be a connection to this wedding planner, he catches the ferry to the island. But while on board he sees Meg get thrown off the boat by someone wearing an orange raincoat.

After Jack jumps in the water and saves Meg they become better acquainted and he tells her what he believes---a serial killer is on the loose. At first Meg doesn't really believe him, she thinks being thrown overboard was a random crime, but she soon realizes he may be telling the truth after she receives a threat, a man is murdered, Jack and Meg are attacked in a store, they see a person in a raincoat a few times at crime scenes, etc...

This was an entertaining and exciting read with an interesting cast of characters/suspects. I liked the main couple. Jack was a bold, reckless hero who was determined to find out who the Raincoat Killer was, especially after the chief of police named him person of interest. Meg was a sweet and likable heroine. Her brother Benji was in the newspapers a lot over ten years ago when he was in a snowmobile accident and the boy he was with died. So she’s hesitant to be in the limelight again with reporters asking questions and hounding her.

This was an enjoyable, fast-paced read. ( )