Alyssa Austins daughter is missing, probably dead and Alyssa doesn't think the cops are doing enough to solve the crime. She bumps into her friend Weather and asks her to talk to her husband Lucas Davenport, an officer with the BCA. Lucas thinks Alyssa is a spacey hippy, but agrees to look into the case.
At the same time a mysterious Goth Fairy is on the trail to get revenge on the killer.
As usual Sandford has interesting things to say about humanity and psychology. Quote from page 282 &283.
Thought about Austin, and what she'd said about insanity, about how it wasLast quote page 400.
nothing more than an extreme version of everyday quirks...Good theory, he thought. Lucas had a theory of his own, sociological,
rather than psychological.
Some people, he believed, looked at
the world and saw a clockwork. Events happened and triggered off other
events, people did what they were programmed to do, and the results came out the
other end: love, hate, war, murder, children, whatever.Other people, Lucas among them, looked out the window and saw nothing but
chaos: accident, chance, stupidity, intelligence, avarice, idealism, all rubbing
against one another in an unpredictable stew.
She said this friend - she said his name was Loren- said there were riverboats
of souls going down the Mississippi, and some of these were glorious riverboats,
and some were like slave ships. The bad souls, obviously. She
thought Frances might still be here, but on a different plane. Not on a
boat yet."
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