P is for Peril

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 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...

Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1940, her father the mystery writer, C.W Grafton, whose own work gave his daughter the initial inspiration to write herself. Since then, Sue has moved to Santa Barbara, where she writes full time.