Publisher's Synopsis
"One of the more humane and empathic sleuths on the block". - TIME OUT "No other crime writer so consistently delivers the goods". - LITERARY REVIEW It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home and had driven away - never to be seen again. His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal - a former stripper thirty years his junior - is just as sure he is dead. Enter private investigator Kinsey Millhone, hired by Fiona to find out just what has happened to the man they loved. Enter also Tommy Hevener, an attractive twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey...
