description: Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Theresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed content with his life. At the time of his disappearance, he was running a nursing care facility where both the staff and the patients loved him. He adored his second wife, Crystal, and doted on their two-year-old son. It wasn' t Crystal who called Kinsey. It was Purcell' s ex-wife, Fiona. Everything about their meeting made Kinsey uneasy. Fiona' s manner was high-handed and her expectations unrealistic. Kinsey' s instincts told her to refuse the job, yet she ended up saying, " I' ll do what I can, but I make no promises." It was a decision she' d live to regret. Pursuing the mysterious disappearance of Purcell, Kinsey crashes into a wall of speculation. It seems everyone has a theory. The cops think he went on a bender and is too ashamed to come home. Fiona is sure he ran off to get away from Crystal, and Crystal is just as sure he' s dead. The staff at the nursing home is convinced he' s been kidnapped, and one of his daughters, having consulted a psychic, is certain that he' s trapped in a dark place, though she doesn' t know where. Kinsey is awash in explanations and sorely lacking in facts. Then pure chance leads her in another direction, and she soon finds herself in a dangerous shadow land, where duplicity and double-dealing are the reality and, with the truth glinting elusively out of reach, she must stake herlife on a thin thread of intuition. P Is for Peril: Kinsey Millhone' s latest venture into the darker side of the human soul.
language: English
title: P is for Peril
titlecomplete: P is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)
characters: Wendell Jaffe, Wolfgang Tumpel (P is for Peril), Pepper Gray, Ruby Curtsinger and Charles Biedler, Mariah Talbot, Melanie Purcell, Detective Odessa, Dr. Yee, Tommy and Richard Hevener, Aunt Gin, Fred MacMurray (The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Kinsey Millhone, Elvis Presley (The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Robert Dietz, Anica Blackburn, Jacob Trigg, John Agar (P is for Peril), Henry Pitts, Mrs. Penelope Delacorte and Mrs. Tina Bart, Hollis Cayo, Mrs. Dorner, Nancy (P is for Peril), Dr. Dowan Purcell, Mr. Harrington, Dana Jaffe / Dana Glazer, Lonnie Kingman, Mrs. Stegler, Philip Marlowe (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Aristotle Onassis (P is for Peril), Cyril Lambrou, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Naked Prey), Crystal Purcell, Tom and Jerry (P is for Peril), Rosie (A is for Alibi), Gloria Swanson (P is for Peril), Leila (P is for Peril), Klotilde (P is for Peril), Rand (P is for Peril), Maclin "Mac" Voorhies, Blanche McKee, Clint Augustine, Jonah Robb, Elmer Fudd (Chosen Prey), Virginia Woolf (P is for Peril), Fiona Purcell, Joel Glazer and Harvey Broadus
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Detective, Adult, Audiobook
ratings_count: 27120
places: Santa Teresa, California
series: Kinsey Millhone
publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group