This literary mystery about a woman's search for her long-missing sister takes readers to the ruggedly beautiful dordogne region of France-and into the exotic world of orchid-hunting, where the discovery of a new species...This literary mystery about a woman's search for her long-missing sister takes readers to the ruggedly beautiful dordogne region of France-and into the exotic world of orchid-hunting, where the discovery of a new species can be deadly. Almost twenty years have passed since bedie dunn, a wild-orchid enthusiast, vanished without a trace on a hiking holiday in southwestern France.