Marcia Muller’s beloved heroine Sharon McCone finally agrees to marry her longtime love just as he hires her to investigate a case that hits close to home. Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old disappearance of Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California—one of San Luis Obispo County’s most puzzling cold cases. But before she can penetrate Laurel’s tangled double life, she must solve a second disappearance—that of her client, Laurel Greenwood’s daughter, who seems to be following a course parallel to her mother’s. The case, which forces Sharon to explore the darker sides of two marriages, comes uncomfortably close on the heels of her own marriage to longtime love Hy Ripinsky, and she begins to doubt the wisdom of her impulsive trip to the Reno wedding chapel.
