"One of the first of the modern women PIs and also one of the grittiest," Los Angeles Times Before Kinsey Millhone, Sharon McCone and V.I. Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the sensitive, gutsy and resourceful private eye who shattered the boundaries of mystery fiction... RUN FROM NIGHTMARE When thirty-year-old Janet Valek dashes off to some small desert town and doesn't come back, her worried family hires PI Delilah West to check up on her. Delilah gladly accepts the mundane case. Delilah is still reeling from ...
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"One of the first of the modern women PIs and also one of the grittiest," Los Angeles Times Before Kinsey Millhone, Sharon McCone and V.I. Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the sensitive, gutsy and resourceful private eye who shattered the boundaries of mystery fiction... RUN FROM NIGHTMARE When thirty-year-old Janet Valek dashes off to some small desert town and doesn't come back, her worried family hires PI Delilah West to check up on her. Delilah gladly accepts the mundane case. Delilah is still reeling from hunting down her husband's killer and has as buried herself in routine cases ever since. The more routine the better. But it turns out that Janet has vanished, and when corpses turning up dead. Delilah fears Janet may be in a shallow grave...and discovers that there are people who would like to put the feisty PI in one, too. The second unforgettable Delilah West thriller from Maxine O'Callaghan, Shamus Award nominee, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America.
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