This is number five in the Chloe Newcombe series. Chloe finds herself a suspect in the murder of Terry Barnett, a gifted carpenter, shot to death in his workshop in Prophecy, Arizona, a former religous community. In a conversation with Chloe before his death, Terry had talked about a mysterious woman, April, and Chloe is convinced that April is somehow connected to his murder. But who is April? The more Chloe investigates--meeting with Heather, Terry's artist wife and Fred, his estranged brother; travelling to Ohio to check into Terry's past-- April becomes more and more an illusion, a dream figure out of the past who may herself have been murdered. A trivia note: Thornton has included the title of every song in the Radiohead album the Bends, somewhere in the book.