Denial (novel)


Denial is a 2005 mystery novel by American writer Stuart M. Kaminsky, a Grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America. It is a Lew Fonesca mystery.

Plot

This novel has two mysteries.
Lew, a process server and an occasional amateur detective, is investigating two separate cases. The first involves a nursing home resident who asks him to prove that a murder has occurred in the facility because no one will believe her. He searches for a hit-and-run driver who killed a 14 year old boy in the second. This investigation reignites the anguish he feels over losing his wife the same way and it sends him into despair.

Main characters

Lewis Fonesca - amateur sleuthAnn Horowitz - psychologist and friend of LewNancy Root - mother of Kyle McCloryKyle McClory - victim of the hit-and-run driver, John WellesJohn Wellington Welles - hit-and -run driver who ran over KyleDorothy Cgnozic - old woman who says she saw someone murdered in the Seaside Assisted LivingVivian Pastor - the one who was murdered by her daughter-in-law, Alberta PastorAlberta Pastor - murderer of Vivian PastorGeorgia Cubbins - mother of Alberta who will confess what her daughter did to VivianAmes McKinney - older friend and guardian of Lewis who helped him in his expedition