Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who has disappeared, leaving behind 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 secert, and her own investigation into the missing doctor is turning up a strong whiff of medical fraud, and more than a hint murder.
For Kinsey, a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what she should have seen all along: a killer standing right before her eyes…