Blurb:
It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixtynine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away - never to be seen again.

His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal - a former stripper forty years his junior - is just as sure he is dead.

Enter private investigator Kinsey Malone, hired by Fiona to find out just what has happened to the man they loved.

Enter also Tommy Hevener, an attractive flame-haired twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey. And Tommy is a man with a very interesting past...

P IS FOR PERIL by SUE GRAFTON (2001) | ISBN: 0330371967 / 9780330371964 (UK Ed ) | Publisher: Macmillian

"In her latest adventure, Kinsey Millhone enters the world of noir. A shadowland in which the mysterious disappearance of a prominent physician leads Kinsey into a danger-filled maze of duplicity and double-dealing..." An intro from fantasticfiction.com.

Re-read in August 2022, I'm aiming to be swift with my notes, but also really cannot put it better than the TIME OUT quote on the books cover:
One of the more humane and empathic sleuths on the block, Grafton's heroine is also genuinely believable, full of quirks and and all too human foibles . . . Absolute top form'

● RELEASE NOTES:
DEAR FINDER:
I'm a special book. I'm not forgotten, lost or disgarded. I was left here on purpose to find new readers. On
www.bookcrossing.com.
You can follow my journey. Take me with you, read me, and please leave a note about my whereabouts on the website - anonymously, if you prefer.
Then, please release me again so I can travel on, cheers rainbow3.

After picking this up, last week, from the Red Kite Cafe, where it had sat for a few months, I re-released this onto the book shelves in the foyer cafe of the Central Edinburgh Scottish Youth Hostel. Feel free to take this book travelling with you, and leave it somewhere else. Happy reading!
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● RELEASE NOTES:
DEAR FINDER:
I'm a special book. I'm not forgotten, lost or disgarded. I was left here on purpose to find new readers. On www.bookcrossing.com. you can follow my journey.

Take me with you, read me, and please leave a note about my whereabouts on the website - anonymously, if you prefer.

Then, please release me again so I can travel on, cheers rainbow3.

To night I picked this book up again in case it might be wanted by BookCrosser LittleSuz who has embarked upon this series.

Hey LittleSuz, at last this in the post to you for you to read when arrived at 'P'. Also included in the package as you know O Is For Outlaw and two suprise, train books:
— The Highland Falcon Thief
— Danger At Dead Mans Pass
Two terrifically brilliant adventures, and choc full of accurate train details. (So, I'm advised by train enthusiasts.) So hats off to the joint authors of those books:
—M. G. Leonard
—Sam Sedgman
(Think someone in the house may enjoy these train travels.)

● RELEASE NOTES:
DEAR FINDER:
I'm a special book. I'm not forgotten, lost or disgarded. I was left here on purpose to find new readers. On www.bookcrossing.com. you can follow my journey.

Take me with you, read me, and please leave a note about my whereabouts on the website - anonymously, if you prefer.

Then, please release me again so I can travel on, cheers rainbow3.

Thank you rainbow3 for this surprise which arrived yesterday!

Unfortunately P is for Peril was actually the first Sue Grafton novel I read last year. But I've copied my previous journal from it below and will ensure this copy has travels in the future.

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I can see why so many of my friends and family like the Sue Grafton novels. It was well plotted and tense. I especially liked the bits where Kinsey audaciously nosed around in places she shouldn't, and picked up valuable clues as a result. She has terrible taste in men though!

P is for Peril would've gotten an even higher from me if it weren't for its weirdly unfocussed ending. I read it and thought, 'that's it, seriously'? Grafton was clearly going for an open-ended surprise and I understand what she was implying, but it didn't work in my opinion. It seemed a little silly. Having looked at other reader reviews for this novel online, I see I wasn't the only one to feel that way. Apparently this is unusual amongst Grafton books. Normally they have a much fuller conclusion.

So I feel a little cheated after such a good mystery build-up, but never mind :-). I'll keep an eye out for other Grafton books in the future and see how I find those.

Sent to my UK Secret Santa partner - Merry Christmas!

Dear Little Suz

Thank you for this. Sue Grafton is a new author to me although I have looked at her books several times. Going to enjoy reading this