> On the eve of what would have been the wedding of the year, Anneli Hammar, the beautiful and happy bride-to-be, vanishes. One moment she was waving to a friend on her way to inspect her bridal bouquet; the next she was gone, as if the earth had swallowed her up. >A nightmare of suspicions follows, questions with no answers - and at the centre of a tangled web of lies stands the mysterious and wealthy man that was to have been Anneli's husband. >Chief Inspector Christer Wick of the Stockholm Crime Squad investigates and in what turns out to be a double murder case the fragrant lily-of the-valley bouquet is a tantilising and vital clue.