Title: Gravedigger (#6 in the Dave Brandstetter series) Author: Joseph Hansen Published by: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982 ISBN: 0-03-056063-2 [hardcover, 183 pages]
Dave Brandstetter, tough-minded veteran death-claims investigator, here faces a snarl of contradictions and question marks. Why would Charles Westover, a disbarred lawyer desperate for money, file an insurance claim and then vanish before he can collect? Was Westover's runaway teenage daughter really killed by the crazed guru of a desert sex cult? Dave's investigation, set against vivid Southern California backgrounds of expensive seaside suburbs and snowy mountain camps, shacky desert towns and wilderness canyons, takes him on a quest of mounting tension and ultimate horror. Never has he needed his renowned shrewdness and compassion more. And never has he faced so close a brush with grisly death.
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