It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-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 . . . 'Grafton is a delight to read; her books being highly literatre; with believable plots and three-dimensionally drawn characters' Irish Times