P is for Peril - Sue Grafton

Kinsey Millhone. After 16 books with her, she still sometimes makes me shake my head when she does dumb things. In this book, she takes on another missing person case. Promising to find Dowan Purcell a doctor with an ex-wife who hires Kinsey, and a new wife who is busy not caring much about how much he's missing. 

On the side, Kinsey is trying to find office space to rent because.... well that's not really clear. The attorney she rents from, and who gives her some business, is moving offices so Kinsey is.... well she's just Kinsey. She doesn't like to get tied to anything for too long. At this point, I'm kind of thinking she needs to get over herself a little bit. Anyway, so she finds a place that is up for rent from two brothers, Richard and Tommy Hevener. Turns out these boys have a bit of a past, but she doesn't find that out until after the check is written. How does this tie in to the missing doctor? It doesn't. It absolutely has nothing to do with it, but I kind of think maybe Grafton's central mystery wasn't taking up enough room so her editors had her pitch in a second minor plot line.

Because after all that, the case of the missing doctor ends kind of with a fizzle of Kinsey figuring it out but none of the normal explainers at the end to figure out what happened to the involved characters. So it was a bit unsatisfactory of an ending. I've made catching up to this series one of my goals for 2016 so here goes.

3/5 Stars.