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Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Theresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed content with his life. At the time of his disappearance, he was running a nursing care facility where both the staff and the patients loved him. He adored his second wife, Crystal, and doted on their two-year-old son.
It wasnt Crystal who called Kinsey. It was Purcells ex-wife, Fiona. Everything about their meeting made Kinsey uneasy. Fionas manner was high-handed and her expectations unrealistic. Kinseys instincts told her to refuse the job, yet she ended up saying, “Ill do what I can, but I make no promises.”
It was a decision shed live to regret.
Pursuing the mysterious disappearance of Purcell, Kinsey crashes into a wall of speculation. It seems everyone has a theory. The cops think he went on a bender and is too ashamed to come home. Fiona is sure he ran off to get away from Crystal, and Crystal is just as sure hes dead. The staff at the nursing home is convinced hes been kidnapped, and one of his daughters, having consulted a psychic, is certain that hes trapped in a dark place, though she doesnt know where. Kinsey is awash in explanations and sorely lacking in facts. Then pure chance leads her in another direction, and she soon finds herself in a dangerous shadow land, where duplicity and double-dealing are the reality and, with the truth glinting elusively out of reach, she must stake her life on a thin thread of intuition.
P Is for Peril: Kinsey Millhones latest venture into the darker side of the human soul.
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Kinsey Millhone stakes her life on a thin thread of intuition when she investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent physician and a cunning Medicare fraud.
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The 16th installment in bestselling author Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mystery series.
About the Author
Sue Grafton began the alphabet series in 1982 and is aiming to complete it by 2015–give or take a decade. She spends part of the year in Louisville, Kentucky, and the rest in Montecito, California.
Judy Kaye has appeared on Broadway in Oh, Brother!, Grease, and On the Twentieth Century, and won the Tony Award for her performance in The Phantom of the Opera. She also created the role of Emma Goldman in Ragtime.