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P Is For Peril - Large Print Edition

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Happily, I've gone along with Kinsey Millhone on her previous A through O adventures, so I always know the parameters of what I'm in for with her. She's in a business we find interesting, even exciting, but most of us prefer to journey with her from our comfy armchairs or couches---she gets into perilous scrapes in every book---but better her than any of us.
PERIL's basic plot revolves around Kinsey's investigation into the disappearance of a prominent doctor, the owner of a facility for the elderly. She sets about methodically questioning the ex-wife, current wife, wayward daughter and baby-factory daughter, significant others, and various nursing home personnel. She tries to get a handle on whether or not the doctor absconded to free himself form his current morass of financial and personal difficulties, or if he is indeed dead.
An intriguing secondary plot has her getting new office space, a new love interest, and opening up an unsolved murder/arson case. It's always good to get back to the cast of regulars in Kinsey's life---Henry, her landlord, especially. She still has a good working relationship with the local Santa Teresa police, and the minor complication of having been romantically involved with one of the lead investigators keeps the tension going. Ms. Grafton has a way of writing about police that deftly and unsentimentally pictures their attitudes, foiblles, and strong suits. (Michael Connolly does this particularly well also.)
I'm always glad to spend time with Kinsey---some of the cases she deals with leave a terrible taste in my mouth and I back off reading her for a while, but come back because I like her.