Award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan-first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues-must locate a missing wife and unravel the secrets in her relationship that led her to flee.

Mark Rubin’s family is missing-and the authorities won’t become involved because all the evidence indicates that his wife remaining willingly. So the effective Baltimore furrier turns to Tess Monaghan, hoping she might help him discover his wife and three children. Tess doesn’t quite know very well what about With a Spider’s Thread to create of Rubin, who doles out quite crucial information in grudging dribs and drabs. According to her client, he and his gorgeous wife, Natalie, acquired a flawless, content marriage. Yet 1 day, without any caution or description, Natalie collected up their kids and vanished.

Experiencing a network of fellow investigators spread in the united states, Tess is usually soon in a position to locate the runaway wife and the children who have been moving furtively from state to state, city to town. However the Rubins are not alone. A mystical man is journeying with them, a stranger explained by witnesses as “good looking” and “captivating” but in any other case unremarkable. And the deeper Tess digs, the greater she suspects the purpose behind Natalie’s reckless trip lies someplace in the gap between what Rubin will not say and what he refuses to believe.

An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance is starting to unfold. Suddenly, a lot more than one man’s long term happiness and persistent satisfaction are in peril. For the lives of three innocent kids are dangling from the slenderest of threads.