by Sandy Frances Duncan & George Szanto.
As I recently moved to British Columbia, it is appropriate that my first book be a book set on the west coast.
This is the second book of a series about Private Eye's who work on the west coast islands (an interesting but not likely realistic premise). The story starts with a memorial service where, when the mother of the deceased goes to give her son a final kiss, insists the body is not that of her son-- because it doesn't look like him. Her son had a lot of facial hair, the corpse is clean shaven.
The family, a strong Greek Orthodox family, hires the PI's to investigate. They find friends who confirm that the body is indeed who it is supposed to be, however, they uncover something unsettling about the individual and the family wants to hide/deny the information at all costs. The family members want the investigation stopped even when it is suggested that the death might be the result of a murder rather than suicide. However, friends of the deceased then hire the investigators.
I found the book kept my interest until the end. I have to say that I really wasn't sure who might have done it until near the end of the book.
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