Lynn Clarke

Walker's Father Lynn Clarke

The story begins five years after "Evidence and Judgment" ends. Jane Sidley, now Kaminski, struggles to cope with her husband Ansel's disappearance into booze and depression, when he literally vanishes after a flight from Heathrow. A father-in-law with a suspicious past, an old flame, Roy, who wants to replace Ansel as Jane's lover and the father of their five year old son, Walker, and an aging but still handsome private eye who falls into bed with Jane's college age babysitter round out a strong cast of unreliable characters. As the search for Ansel draws Jane into danger, she reflects on the meaning of marriage to a loving, creative man whose addictions mean he was never fully present, and may never be, even if she can find him.