A museum curator travels to Italy and looks into a murder in this “fresh, funny [and] thoroughly enjoyable mystery” by the author of the Gideon Oliver series (Publishers Weekly).

Detective Flynn Carroll's wife vanishes without a trace. No struggle, no clues, just a chilling truth: Someone's taking people and making it look like they left. Obsessed, Flynn uncovers a nationwide conspiracy. Enter Diana Glass of a clandestine police unit hunting otherworldly criminals. Together, they delve into a hidden world of unimaginable danger to find the missing and bring the perpetrators to justice.

A tale that takes place in Zurich and the Swiss Alps, Cote d’Azur and Paris, this is a novel of cruelty and passion, loyalty and courage, and the tragic death of an ideal—“a tenderly absurd, heart-breaking...[and] truly gripping story” (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

When Lila’s middle-aged, charmless, and rich fiancé is stabbed to death, all eyes fall on her scorned ex-lover—and only the brilliant, demure detective Miss Maud Silver can clear his name.

Though everyone shuts her theories down, attorney Lydia James can’t help but sense a connection between the death of an influential senator and the murder of his niece two years later in this thrilling mystery.

“Bright, witty, and full of Washington insider insight.” —The Houston Chronicle