Failure to Appear by J. A. Jance (1999, pbk, JP Beaumont Book 11)

\""Failure to Appear\"" by J. A. Jance, published in 1993 in the United States in paperback, 372pp, ISBN 9780380758395\nCondition Notes: Good+ condition, clean & tidy copy, well looked-after. The front and back covers have mild foxing to them (a tanning or browning effect that occurs in some papers as they age - there is no loss of text or readability from this). The foxing is visible on the inside surfaces only\nStoryline: A desperate father\u2019s 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 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 o)