"P" is for Peril

"P" is for Peril
ISBN-10
0786229314
ISBN-13
9780786229314
Category
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Pages
557
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
THORNDIKE Press
Author
Sue Grafton

Description

A New York Times Bestselling Author A Literary Guild® Main SelectionKinsey Millhone is back, and she's broke, which is why she decides to take on a missing persons case involving a rich doctor who may have repeated history by running out on his wife and child. Things heat up when she learns that the good doctor is wanted by federal fraud busters on suspicion of Medicare fraud. Grafton delivers again in this, her sixteenth novel, which takes us into a world cast in shades o black amid shafts of steel and silver -- a shadowland in which the mysterious disappearance of the doctor leads Kinsey into a dangerous maze of duplicity as she taps into the intricacies of a cunning Medicare fraud.

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