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 her life on a thin thread of intuition.
language: English
title: P Is for Peril
titlecomplete: P Is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone, #16)
characters: Dana Jaffe / Dana Glazer, Nancy (P is for Peril), Leila (P is for Peril), Virginia Woolf (P is for Peril), John Agar (P is for Peril), Clint Augustine, Tom and Jerry (P is for Peril), Aunt Gin, Elmer Fudd (Chosen Prey), Mariah Talbot, Tommy and Richard Hevener, Wendell Jaffe, Joel Glazer and Harvey Broadus, Pepper Gray, Ruby Curtsinger and Charles Biedler, Mrs. Penelope Delacorte and Mrs. Tina Bart, Maclin "Mac" Voorhies, Gloria Swanson (P is for Peril), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Naked Prey), Hollis Cayo, Mrs. Dorner, Crystal Purcell, Kinsey Millhone, Anica Blackburn, Cyril Lambrou, Elvis Presley (The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Blanche McKee, Dr. Yee, Mr. Harrington, Detective Odessa, Fiona Purcell, Philip Marlowe (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Wolfgang Tumpel (P is for Peril), Aristotle Onassis (P is for Peril), Mrs. Stegler, Henry Pitts, Jonah Robb, Fred MacMurray (The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Robert Dietz, Melanie Purcell, Lonnie Kingman, Jacob Trigg, Rosie (A is for Alibi), Dr. Dowan Purcell, Klotilde (P is for Peril), Rand (P is for Peril)
genres: Audiobook, Detective, Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 27117
places: Santa Teresa, California
series: Kinsey Millhone
publisher: Macmillan UK