P is for Peril

Another day, another Sue Grafton A to Z Mystery. This one is by far the most tedious one of them I have read. Of course, somehow I ended up with the large print edition, so it was six hundred pages and the words were biggest than my bookmark. But whatever.
In this one, Kinsey Millhone, Private Eye is hired by Fiona Purcell to find her missing ex-husband, Dow. Dow disappeared weeks ago and the police haven't been able to find him, so why should Kinsey? But Kinsey takes the case, and talks to all the leads: Dow's ex-stripper wife, Crystal, Crystal's wild daughter, Leila, everyone at the nursing home he worked at, his friends, everyone. Meanwhile, Kinsey's also making acquaintances of her own. She has met Tommy Heavener (she's renting her new office from his brother, Richard) and has kind of grown to like him. They've dated a little when Kinsey finds out from a complete stranger that Tommy and Richard might be dangerous to be around. Danger surrounds Kinsey once again.
I think the reason this one kind of bored me was because the entire case was built around medical fraud. Cases like that, all about the money with no really dramatic background story, don't keep me entertained for long. But in real life, there are probably a lot more of these than you think, and Sue Grafton tries to keep her novels real.
There were some good moments in this book, though, like when Kinsey bribes a nursing home resident with a Big Mac and some fries to keep watch while she sneaks into the medical records room and ends up being witness to more than she can stomach. Still, I'm kind of glad I'm done with this book. The disappointing part: there wasn't even a cliffhanger for the ending!