May 8th, Shelby Worthen dining with her husband, Stanley, goes to the restroom, but never returns. She disappears without a trace. Six weeks later, June 17th, a battered corpse wearing Shelby's shirt and bracelet washes up on the rocks below Bodega Head. That same day MacCrimmon's wife, Karen, and his son, Alex, disappear, leaving signs of a hasty departure, but no message. Two days later, Lena Montoya, the beautiful widow of a Mexican drug lord, who is obsessed with MacCrimmon (for reasons he's never understood) shows up at his Nob Hill home. MacCrimmon, always suspicious of coincidences, uncovers connections among the cases, but too late for the people who have been murdered