"Morse is a thoroughly convincing detective, and a very humane one,
too."
--The New York Times Book Review
Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more
than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is,
who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't
worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each
time the pieces of the jigsaw start falling into place, someone scatters
them again. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. Morse
prefers a body--a body dead from unnatural causes. And very soon he gets
one. . . .
"You don't really know Morse until you've read him. . . . Viewers who
have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery!
anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in
Dexter's novels."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"Fascinating . . . Very satisfying."
--Book Sellers