"Susan O'Malley narrates this puzzling mystery in a straightforward, no-frills style.
She barely differentiates characters and doesn't bother with accents. Her spare style matches
the characteristics of her detective, Chris Bennett Brooks, who is a policeman's wife and former
nun. Brooks approaches the task of finding out what happened in a painstaking, no-nonsense
manner, which is interesting but not melodramatic."AudioFile

More than a year ago, Natalie Gordon went to buy a balloon at the Thanksgiving Day parade
and dissolved into thin air. The police and a private investigator still have no leads. So when
Natalie's despairing husband pleads with ex-nun Christine Bennett to help, she can't say no.

Not only are Natalie's present whereabouts a mystery but so is her past. Someone has stripped
her personnel file in her old office. Even her husband knows strangely little about her. Starting
with a cardboard box of Natalie's belongingsa few books, keys, some cosmeticsChristine
searches for a life someone has tried very had to erase and finds a cast of characters so chilling
that murder seems not only inevitable but likely to happen again.