Bailey Ruth Raeburn is called to the Department of Good Intentions, but this time her adven-mission strikes close to home and her life in Adelaide. The person she is to help is a former acquaintance, Kay Clark, and they were not chums. Worse yet, Kay is even more stubborn than Bailey Ruth ever was, and is not likely to listen to Heaven's advice to drop her plans and leave town.

Bailey Ruth arrives on Earth just in time to push Kay out of the way of a plummeting deadly garden vase. Kay is poking her nose into old family business trying to find the murderer of her former lover, Jack Hume, behind the pretense of writing Jack's biography. Instead of taking Bailey Ruth's warning to heart, she sees the attempt on her life as a good sign she is disturbing the killer and becomes even more determined to keep turning over rocks in search of the secret that cost Jack his life.

As with the two previous books in the series, there are plenty of interesting suspects from which to choose. Closest to Jack are his legally blind sister Evelyn and her odd habit of collecting paintings she has no way of truly enjoying and his brother James' widow Diane, seeking contact with her dead husband through a pair of charlatans who hold séances once a week, for a stiff donation. At the periphery, add in the neighbors, Jack's high school buddy Paul, art gallery owner Alison, the housekeeper and her daughter, as well as Jack's young nephew. It takes Chief Cobb of the Adelaide police and all Bailey Ruth's resources to keep Kay safe on her headstrong path.

Hart has crafted another winner with just enough twisting and turning in the plot to keep fans guessing to the end.