Then at least I'd be satisfied with the job they've done.I was silent for a beat, staring at the floor.Inside, a little voice was kelling, No, no, no! while my mouth said,"I'll see what Ican do."

 One of the more humane and empathic sleuths on the block,Grafton's heroine is also genuinely believable, full of quirks and all too human foibles... Absolute top form.

 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, had climbed into his car and 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 flame-haired twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey.And Tommy is a man with a very interesting past...

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