Books like P is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone, #16) by Sue Grafton
Dr. Dowan Purcell vanishes after leaving the Pacific Meadows nursing home, and his life‑long disappearance drives his first wife Fiona to enlist private investigator Kinsey Malone. Malone uncovers a web of secrets surrounding the missing doctor, while being pursued by a young man, Tommy Hevener, whose own past becomes entwined with the case. As Malone digs deeper, the fractures in the relationships and the hidden motives of those closest to Purcell threaten to reveal a darker truth.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Sue Grafton
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