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When V.I. Warshawski is asked by old family friend Frankie Roganti to look into the mysterious disappearance of his younger sister, Annie, she agrees to investigate. V.I. knew the siblings as a teenager, when she assisted Annie with her school work and college applications. It was two weeks before Annie was due to start at Barnard College in New York that she vanished, thought at the time to have fled to the city after an argument with her mother. Staring at a thirty-year-old trail giving her no immediate answers, V.I. delves deep into Annie past - but what she hears from people who remember Annie and her family paints a very different picture to the one she remembers. And when she digs into the operations of Danvers & Scanlon - an insurance and zoning law company where Annie used to work - she discovers that she's disturbed a hornets' nest. And it's one with a deadly sting ...