P is for Peril

the long version

It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without a trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his collegues 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 forty ears his junior - is just as sure he is dead. Enter private investigator Kinsey Millhone, hired by Fiona to find out just what has happpened 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 intresting past ... -- back cover.