Denial (novel)

Denial is a mystery novel written by Stuart M. Kaminsky, a Grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America. It is a Lew Fonesca mystery and was published June 1, 2005.

Plot
This novel has two mysteries.

Lew, a process server and an occasional amateur detective, is investigating two separate cases. The first involves a nursing home resident who asks him to prove that a murder has occurred in the facility because no one will believe her. He searches for a hit-and-run driver who killed a 14 year old boy in the second. This investigation reignites the anguish he feels over losing his wife the same way and it sends him into despair.

Main characters

 * Lewis Fonesca - amateur sleuth
 * Ann Horowitz - psychologist and friend of Lew
 * Nancy Root - mother of Kyle McClory
 * Kyle McClory - victim of the hit-and-run driver, John Welles
 * John Wellington Welles - hit-and -run driver who ran over Kyle
 * Dorothy Cgnozic - old woman who says she saw someone murdered in the Seaside Assisted Living
 * Vivian Pastor - the one who was murdered by her daughter-in-law, Alberta Pastor
 * Alberta Pastor - murderer of Vivian Pastor
 * Georgia Cubbins - mother of Alberta who will confess what her daughter did to Vivian
 * Ames McKinney - older friend and guardian of Lewis who helped him in his expedition