When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitts ex-boyfriend and a popular musician in the Bay Area scene is found dead in his apartment, his cherished guitars missing, the police are convinced its a simple robbery. But Claire knows that nothing is ever simple. With the help of her new assistant Claude, Claire follows the clues, finding hints to Pauls fate in her other casesespecially a long-ago missing girl in New Yorks gritty East Village and a modern-day miniature horse theft in Marin. As visions of the past reveal the secrets of the present, Claire begins to understand the words of the enigmatic French detective Jacques Silette: The detective wont know what he is capable of until he encounters a mystery that pierces his own heart. And love, in all its forms, is the greatest mystery of allat least to the worlds greatest P.I.