"U" Is for Undertow is the 21st novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel, set in 1988, finds Kinsey investigating the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl in 1967 and the narrative weaves between both time periods. …
"H" Is for Homicide is the eighth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. In "H" Is for Homicide, Kinsey Millhone goes under cover to help break up an insurance fraud ring in Los Angeles led by Raymond Maldonado. She …
"Q" Is for Quarry is the 17th novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. Though the book is a work of fiction, it is based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in Santa Barbara County, California in August 1969. A Jane Doe …
"I" Is for Innocent is the ninth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
"Ms. Grafton writes a smart story and wraps it up with a wry twist."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Wendell Jaffe has been dead for five years--until his former insurance agent spots him in a dusty resort bar. Now California Fidelity wants Kinsey Millhone to track down the dead man. Just two months before, his widow …
"Every investigation has a nature of its own, but there are certain shared characteristics," explains private eye Kinsey Millhone in her 13th alphabetic outing. "Here's what you hope for: a chance remark from the former neighbor on a skip-trace, a penciled notation on the corner of a document, an ex-spouse with a …
"K" Is for Killer is the 11th novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel was a New York Times bestseller with a reported 600,000-copy first printing. Vice cop Cheney Phillips is introduced in this novel. It was …
Malgré ses soixante-neuf ans, le docteur Dow Purcell est resté bien vert. S'il n'exerce plus, il continue d'administrer la maison de retraite des Prairies du Pacifique, et il a épousé en secondes noces Crystal, une ancienne strip-teaseuse à la plastique séduisante. Pourtant, Fiona, sa première femme, s'inquiète car …
Pour Bucky, Papy Johnny Lee fut un héros de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et il aimerait bien que le ministère des Anciens Combattants lui fasse un enterrement militaire. Refus du ministère : Johnny Lee ? Connaît pas. L'imbroglio bureaucratique s'épaississant, la privée Kinsey Millhone, bonne poire, accepte, …
À Nota Lake, un petit village de montagne, Tom Newquist, l'adjoint du shérif, vient de mourir. On l'a retrouvé dans sa voiture de patrouille, victime d'un infarctus. Rien de suspect en apparence. Pourtant, Selma, la veuve de Tom, qui le savait préoccupé depuis plusieurs semaines, décide d'embaucher la détective Kinsey …