Denial is a mystery novel written by Stuart M. Kaminsky, a Grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America. This is a Lew Fonesca mystery and was released last July 8, 2005.
This novel has two mysteries.
Lew, a process server was called by an old woman resident in Seaside Assisted Living asking him to prove that a murder had occurred there Seaside because all people there does not believe her. Another is a mother, named Nancy Root, paid him to find the hit-and-run driver who killed her son.
1. Lewis Fonesca - amateur sleuth
2. Ann Horowitz - psychologist and friend of Lew
3. Nancy Root - mother of Kyle McClory
4. Kyle McClory - victim of the hit-and-run driver, John Welles
5. John Wellington Welles - hit-and -run driver who ran over Kyle
6. Dorothy Cgnozic - old woman who says she saw someone murdered in the Seaside Assisted Living
7. Vivian Pastor - the one who was murdered by her daughter-in-law, Alberta Pastor
8. Alberta Pastor - murderer of Vivian Pastor
9. Georgia Cubbins - mother of Alberta who will confess what her daughter did to Vivian
10. Ames McKinney - older friend and guardian of Lewis who helped him in his expedition