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Denial : a Lew Fonesca mystery

Lew Fonesca, former investigator for Illinois' Cook County State's Attorney's Office, is serving a self-imposed life sentence in Florida. Over the past three mysteries in Kaminsky's series, readers have seen Fonesca as struggling to get by as a hard-up Sarasota process server, living in the tiny space behind his grungy office and consumed with grief over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident. Fonesca is so miserable that he can be a real pain for a reader to hang with, even portrayed by as gifted a writer as Kaminsky. But in this latest entry, Fonesca moves from irritating sad sack to intriguing stumbler into the light. Here, he looks for two murderers: the person accused by a resident of Seaside Assisted Living of killing another resident, and the hit-and-run driver who killed a local actress' 14-year-old son. The book begins and ends with the word "No," but there's a world of difference in what those words mean in the context of the story.

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