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Product description Three years ago Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the States Attorneys office in Cook County, Illinois, and drove his rattling Toyota south to escape the memories of his beloved late wife. The Toyota broke down in Sarasota, Florida. Buoyed by the friendship of a few trustworthy souls, Lew settled there, making ends meet by doing some investigative work. Now Lew is hired by Carl Sebastian, to find his missing wife Melanie. Following up on a few leads, Lew finds himself being trailed by a mysterious man, and saddled with another missing person case. With the help of friends, Lew seems to be getting closer to Melanie, but will he find her before the unthinkable happens? From Library Journal Lew Fonseca is a middle-aged, balding, classic-movie lover, and morose freelance process server in Sarasota, FL. His office is above a Dairy Queen, and he lives a rather solitary life after the death of his wife in a winter auto accident back in Chicago. In addition to his process serving duties, he also dabbles in finding missing persons, and as his luck would have it, two cases fall into his lap on the same day. The first comes from the mother of a teenage girl who is worried that her daughter has become a prostitute under the tender care of her louse of a father. The second one deals with a husband's desperate search to find his wife. With the help of some rather colorful secondary characters, Fonseca soon finds out that there is a tenuous link between the two seemingly disparate cases. Kaminsky has been adept at creating realistic literary characters in his previous mysteries, and if Vengeance is any indication, we'll be hoping to see a lot more of mopey Lew and his merry band of misfits. Scott Brick brings life to these characters without resorting to phony voices or unbelievable accents. All in all, this will be a solid addition to public library collections. Joseph L. Carlson, Lompoc P.L., CA Co