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 forty years his junior -- is just as sure he is dead. Enter private investigator Kinsey Malone, 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 ...

'Grafton is a delight to read, her books being highly literatre, with believable plots and three-dimensionally drawn characters'
Irish Times

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About the Author

Sue Grafton has become one of the most popular female writers, both here and in the US. Born in Kentucky in 1940, the daughter of the mystery writer C. W. Grafton, she began her career as a TV scriptwriter before Kinsey Millhone and the ‘alphabet’ series took off.

Sue freely confesses that Kinsey is her alter ego: “I think of her as the person I might have been had I not married young and had kids; she is that stripped down piece of my personality.” She writes one book a year and plans to take Kinsey all the way through the alphabet to Z, when Kinsey will be forty years old.

Sue Grafton spends part of the year in Louisville, Kentucky, and the rest in Montecito, California, where she is presently working on her next novel.