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Failure to Appear

by J.A. Jance · 1993

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A shattering tale of tragedy and horror from top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance.

A desperate father's search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her: backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the murders in this dazzling world of make-believe are no longer mere stagecraft, and the blood is all too real. The hunt for his child has plunged former Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont into a bone-chilling drama of revenge, greed, and butchery, where innocents are made to suffer in perverse and terrible ways. And many more young lives are at stake, unless he can uncover the villain of the piece before the final, deadly curtain falls.

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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisSeattleSeattleMore like thisLess of thisWashington StateWashington StateMore like thisLess of thisOregonOregonMore like thisLess of thisWashingtonWashingtonMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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