While investigating the reappearance of the long-presumed-dead Wendell Jaffe, Kinsey Milhone uncovers some unpleasant truths about her own family in the process

Product Description: Amazon review by Ms. Phyllis A. Buckner. Sue Grafton is one of the best white-knuckle writers I have read. I am acquiring all of her books, and wish her many more productive years. Don't read this one unless you want to get hooked and then have to buy all of her books.

Kinsey Millhone trusts her life to her instincts as her investigation into the disappearance of a renowned physician takes her into a dark and dangerous world of duplicity, betrayal, and double-dealing.

Kinsey Millhone must determine who killed John Daggett--his wife, his daughter, or one of his victims's families ; when incriminating evidence indicates that Kinsey is corrupt, she tries to prove her innocence; and Kinsey investigates the years old murder of Jean Timberlake. (view table of contents)

The first three alphabet crime novels--A Is for Alibi, B Is for Burglar, and C Is for Corpse--appear in an omnibus edition that chronicles the exploits and cases of female private detective Kinsey Milhone.

Product Description: "One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . 'G' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can't wait for 'H' ."--Louise Bernikow, CosmopolitanGood and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list...read more

Product Description: A New York Times Bestselling Author -- When PI Kinsey Millhone?s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she can?t believe he had any enemies. The only red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnell?s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies...read more

A New York Times Bestseller -- He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who's done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident -- death by drowning. Kinsey wasn't so sure.

Product Description: A New York Times Bestseller -- He was young - maybe twenty or so - and he must once have been a good-looking kid. Kinsey could see that. But now his body was covered in scars, his face half-collapsed. For three weeks Kinsey had watched him silently and doggedly working out at the local gym...read more

Product Description: A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks routine... boring. Still, business is slow and even a private investigator has bills to pay, so Kinsey Millhone takes the case. But this is not routine and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get...read more

The wife of a hated divorce lawyer becomes the main suspect in his murder and hires private detective, Kinsey Millhone, to find the real killer

Product Description: Cuando Kinsey Millhone acepta trabajar para el viejo Fowler y averigua quien mato hace diecisiete anos a la jovencisima Jean, no se da cuenta en seguida de que las heridas familiares pueden ocultar tanto misterio y tanta pasion. Bailey, hijo de Fowler, habia sido juzgado y declarado culpable y, tras un ano de prision, habia huido y desaparecido...read more

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I cherish my unmarried state. I'm female, twice divorced, no kids and no close family ties. I'm perfectly content to do what I do. It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn't made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped. 'Grafton on form yet again' - "The Times". 'Grafton crafts a crazy, credible puzzle with jigsaw finesse' - "Sunday Times". 'An unusually compelling series of novels with a notably convincing central character' - "Guardian".

Kinsey Millhone discovers that many people wanted John Daggett dead, including the wife who faced an intolerable marriage, the daughter who hated her lying father, and the families of the victims of Daggett's drunken driving

Fearing that the assailant who had once tried to kill him--and had left him badly scarred and partially amnesiac--would again try to murder him, Bobby Callahan turns to Kinsey Millhone for help