Denial is a mystery novel written by Stuart M. Kaminsky,^[1] a Grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America.^[2] It is a Lew Fonesca mystery^[1] and was published June 1, 2005.^[3]

Plot

This novel has two mysteries.

Lew, a process server and an occasional amateur detective,^[4] is investigating two separate cases. The first involves a nursing home resident who asks him to prove that a murder has occurred in the facility because no one will believe her. He searches for a hit-and-run driver who killed a 14 year old boy in the second. This investigation reignites the anguish he feels over losing his wife the same way and it sends him into despair.^[1][5]

==Main characters==

• Lewis Fonesca - amateur sleuth
• Ann Horowitz - psychologist and friend of Lew
• Nancy Root - mother of Kyle McClory
• Kyle McClory - victim of the hit-and-run driver, John Welles
• John Wellington Welles - hit-and -run driver who ran over Kyle
• Dorothy Cgnozic - old woman who says she saw someone murdered in the Seaside Assisted Living
• Vivian Pastor - the one who was murdered by her daughter-in-law, Alberta Pastor
• Alberta Pastor - murderer of Vivian Pastor
• Georgia Cubbins - mother of Alberta who will confess what her daughter did to Vivian
• Ames McKinney - older friend and guardian of Lewis who helped him in his expedition