Failure to Appear

J.P. Beaumont’s teenage daughter Kelly has run off–and her tracks have led the sober-but-struggling sleuth to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But in addition to one very headstrong offspring, there is something else waiting for Beau: a case of coldblooded murder.

The victim is an acquaintance–a sleazy rival private investigator brutally butchered, supposedly by the Festival’s current young Juliet . . though Beau has his doubts. But the Second Act is about to open with a second corpse and a touch of kiddie porn–leaving Beau center stage in a heart-stopping tragedy of revenge, deception, and death.