Private investigator Kinsey Millhone gets entangled in a minefield of a missing persons case in this thriller that ';crackles with suspense and pops with surprises' (Newsday). Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming.

She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one-a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives.

Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secretand now a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what Kinsey should have seen all along: a killer standing right before her eyes...