On Sale: Jan 27, 2026
Page Count: 400 pages
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13: 9781454968719

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DC Smith’s job is put on the line when a woman’s insurance company hires him to confirm that her missing husband is no longer alive—so her second husband can cash in on a hefty insurance claim.

Jo told him the phone call had been about a woman who wanted to have her husband declared dead. DC Smith is called by a woman named Amanda Fitch who wants to have her husband declared dead, but there's no body, no proof of death, and Smith does not want to get involved.

But on this occasion, Smith will have to investigate. The insurance company, which will have to pay out a very substantial amount of money if Amanda Fitch obtains her certificate of presumed death, has engaged Diver and Diver Associates to look into the disappearance of Gerald Fitch—more than five years ago now. As Jason Diver says, he has the very man for the job. All he has to do is to persuade that man to take it on.

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A DC Smith/Kings Lake Investigation

Peter Grainger

About the Author

Peter Grainger is the “creator of the greatest fictional sleuth you’ve probably never heard of” (Financial Times magazine). A former sixth-form English teacher, Peter is the author of 23 novels. He lives with his wife, sometimes a grandson, and a dog in a cottage in the Cambridgeshire fens. He travels as often as possible to the Norfolk coast he once called home.

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