Money, crime, death, unrequited love with a little voodoo in the mix - best characterize this book. When Montgomery Clark wakes up, two weeks after his wife's disappearance, he finds a bump on the back of his head, a painting (done by his wife) missing, a note in his own handwriting which reads, "You killed my sister, now I'll murder you," and a dead sparrow in his dresser drawer. He realizes he must solve the mystery of the disappearance of his wife or face charges for her disappearance.