This is the 22nd book in Robert B. Parker's best selling series featuring Spenser, the private eye known only by one name. Lisa, the young wife of Spenser's cop buddy Frank Belsun, vanishes into thin air and Frank is shot in the back, leaving Spenser to search for his friend's missing bride. The search unveils the secrets of Lisa's life before Belsun and leads Spenser to a hispanic barrio north of Boston where Lisa has been taken by her former latin lover who kidnapped her. It is an easy read and the action keeps coming.