Now that he's made Lieutenant, Frank Hastings assigns routine cases to his subordinates. He saves for himself the puzzlers, like the disappearance of a prominent woman. She is Carol Connelly, wife and mother, rich and elegant, from a family that leans on the mayor for action. Solving the case is politically expedient, but Hastings is stumped. Mrs. Connelly doesn't fit the victim profile. Those close to her say she's cool, aggressive...a predator. Hastings is under pressure to find her...dead or alive. "Boils with life...complex and involving." (Ross MacDonald, author of Archer At Large)
