title: Caught in a Bind
author: Roper, Gayle
description: People don't just vanish into thin air. Yet that's what's happened to Tom Whatley, the husband of Merry Kramer's co-worker at The News. And in his place? A strange corpse lies in the Whatleys' garage.
  
  As if a missing person/murder case weren't enough, a beautiful new rival is rattling Merry's faith in her blossoming romance with artist Curt Carlyle. Then there are the problems that develop with Edie Whatley's teenage son and the case of domestic abuse Merry gets pulled into. Her search for the scoop puts her directly in the path of the killer.