When a man’s wife and children go missing, he hires Tess Monaghan to find them and bring them home.  As she digs into his, and her, background, she finds that the wife he claims to know may not be who he thinks she is.  Can Tess track down the missing family, and the mysterious man accompanying them, before any more blood is shed?

Laura Lippman returns with By a Spider’s Thread, the eighth entry in her Tess Monaghan series.  Following the events of The Last Place, Tess once again finds herself single, though I assume that will be taken care of sooner rather than later.  She also finds herself facing her Jewish half more seriously than she has in the past, due to her Orthodox client.  I’ve got four more Tess novels to go, not to mention any other works in Lippman’s oeuvre, so there’s plenty for me to enjoy moving forward.