"On the face of it, you wouldn"t think there was any connection between the murder of a dead man and the events that changes my perceptions about my life..." For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity - the company that had fired her nine months previously. Fives hours later she was on a plane to Mexico, hot on the trial of a suicide who"d allegedly just come back to life. After a five year wait, Wendell Jaffe"s widow had finally succeeded in having the real estate swindler declared dead, collecting half a million dollars for her pains. Now it looks like a "pseudocide" - and Kinsey"s ready to risk everything to get to the truth. "Friendlishly clever...better than anything else that"s currently on offer" - "Literary Review".