I especially liked the creepy murderer. Zeliah runs a successful art gallery on a Pacific Northwest island accessible only by ferry. When she hears of her close friend's death by drug overdose she tries calling the Greenwich Police Department to inform them that her friend didn't use drugs. When they dismiss her as a hysterical friend she enlists the help of reclusive fiction crime writer Gabe Conaghan who's out on Solace Island staying at and looking over a property his father bought while trying to finish his latest book. I don't like the way Zeliah first wants him and a child by him but expects him just to walk off leaving her with the hypothetical child to raise and doesn't want him giving her advice. She keeps up this I want you I want you not even though he's now crazy about her, until nearly the end of the book. I found that annoying. ( )