I enjoyed this book but can't figure how the previous book can end with Gregor and Bennis talking about going to Spain together and then no mention of it in this book and they are back to their sibling like relationship. ( )

This volume has one of the best plots in the series. A woman in a suburban gated Philadelphia development murders her husband and disappears. Her car is blown up in a parking lot later the same day. Haddam goes into the lives of her neighbors and her old friends from Vassar.

Good read. ( )

Far more of the usual police proccedural than has been the case with several of the earlier books in the Gregor Demarkian series. In this one, the preparations for Donna Moradanyan's wedding are about to consume Philadelphia's Cavanaugh St--almost literally. Slowly but surely, every available surface is being covered by white and silver wedding decorations, sparing only the street and sidewalks themselves. As usual, Haddam provides a light-hearted, affectionate look at life in the Armenian-American community of Cavanaugh St.

But the comic touch so evident in previous books is missing from the main plot in this one. Here it's a straightforward investigation of 3 murders involving pipe bombs and a vanished wife. The plot is well done.

All the old favorite denizens of Cavanaugh Street are back and are as quirky as ever. The first real hint surfaces that Gregor and Bennis might progress beyond just "friends". ( )