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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Description
Kinsey Millhone ventures into the darker side of the human soul in this gripping novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton.
Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one—a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she...
Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one—a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she...
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years after the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered in a quarry off California's Highway 1, two police detectives nearing retirement enlist Kinsey Millhone's aid to help identify the long-ago murder victim.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Nikki Fife, the wife of a hated divorce lawyer, out on parole after eight years in prison for killing her husband, hires ex-cop-turned-private detective Kinsey Millhone to find the real killer and clear her name.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
Language
English
Description
After a recent reference to a kidnapping triggers a flood of memories, unemployed college dropout Michael Sutton hires Kinsey Millhone to locate a four-year-old girl's remains and find the men who killed her.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
An assignment to "babysit" Reba Lafferty, a wealthy and spoiled young woman just out of prison on probation from the California Institution for Women for embezzlement, turns unexpectedly dangerous for Kinsey Milhone.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
7) X
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Description
"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Kinsey investigates two seemingly unrelated deaths. The first is a local, shady PI and the second is a John Doe on the beach.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
Sociopath Solana Rojas uses a stolen identity as a private caregiver to gain access to her intended victims while endeavoring to outmaneuver private investigator Kinsey Millhone.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Description
Thirty-four years after Violet Sullivan's unexplained disappearance, Daisy--the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter she left behind--enlists the assistance of private detective Kinsey Millhone to help her find the truth.
11) Blue City
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
He was a son who hadn’t known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder—his father’s murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father’s seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors. The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers,...
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to track down Guy Malek, a man who walked away from his family eighteen years earlier and now stands to inherit part of his deceased father's forty-million dollar estate, but unfortunately, not everyone is eager to welcome home the prodigal son.
13) Vanishing point
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Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.
14) Burn out
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Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 25
Language
English
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Description
"Here is Marcia Muller's stalwart heroine Sharon McCone as you've never seen her before, in a new novel set in California's high desert country"--Provided by the publisher.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen years after the murder of troubled teenager Jean Timberlake in Floral Beach, California, her self-confessed killer, who had escaped from custody, suddenly reappears, and the case is reopened.
16) Find a victim
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Series
Language
English
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When Lew Archer stops for a hitchhiker and finds a young man dying of a gunshot wound, he knows he has stumbled into a mess. In a matter of hours he is suspected by the law, hired by a target-shooting trucking magnate, and chasing a hijacked load of hooch and a band of sinners on the loose.
Author
Series
San Francisco mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
18) When she dreams
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Return to 1930s Burning Cove, California, the glamorous seaside playground for Hollywood stars, mobsters, spies, and a host of others who find more than they bargain for in this mysterious town. Maggie Lodge, assistant to the reclusive advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers, hires down-but-not-quite-out private eye Sam Sage to help track down the person who is blackmailing her employer. Maggie and Sam are a mismatched pair....
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Hired to bring a woman's mother back from the Mojave desert, female investigator Kinsey Millhone returns to unearth a gruesome, long-buried secret and make the top billing of Tyrone Patty's hit list.
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