Preposterous

<p>A San Francisco dominatrix Elizabeth Cromwell is drawn into the sudden disappearance of Edith Barlow an heir to the estate of an old friend of Elizabeth's a woman who herself had vanished seven years earlier. A struggling poetry zine a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon a man serving a life sentence in Alabama an enigmatic signature <em>K(s x) </em>on a cheap oil painting an erotic art dealer in Georgia-these are a few of the many mysterious parts in a highly convoluted string of strange disappearances that Elizabeth puts together with the help of an ex-Missouri Highway Patrolman retired in San Francisco on physical disability.</p>