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Kinsey Millhone, employed by Nord Lafferty to drive his daughter home from her incarceration at the Californian Institute for Women, marvels at the simplicity of the task. But Reba Lafferty emerges feisty and rebellious, and Kinsey is soon fighting to prevent her charge from breaking the conditions of her parole. As she finds herself befriending the ex-gambler, ex-alcoholic and ex-con, Kinsey discovers that Reba had taken the fall for her boss, also her lover, when he conducted a highly-crafted money laundering scam. Alan Beckwith has so far escaped the clutches of the FBI. Now they believe he is laundering money for a Columbian drug cartel - they just need the proof. When Kinsey is asked by the police to persuade Reba to unveil crucial evidence guaranteed to put Beckwith behind bars, she doesn't expect cooperation. But when she hears of shocking new information about her lover, Reba is suddenly all too eager to do everything she can to ruin him. Embroiled in a cunning challenge of wits, and meanwhile bemused by her own blossoming romance, Kinsey must try to control the bitter, angry Reba as she launches her dangerous revenge ...

X is the thrilling twenty-fourth book in the Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series from the New York Times bestselling author, Sue Grafton.In hindsight, I marvel at how clueless I was ...What I ask myself even now is whether I should have picked up the truth any faster than I did, which is to say not fast enough ...When a glamorous red head wishes to locate the son she put up for adoption thirty-two years ago, it seems like an easy two hundred bucks for P. I. Kinsey Millhone. But when a cop tells her she was paid with marked bills, and Kinsey's client is nowhere to be found, it becomes apparent this mystery woman has something to hide. Riled, Kinsey won't stop until she's found out who fooled her and why. Meanwhile, the widow of the recently murdered P. I. - and Kinsey's old friend - Pete Wolinsky, needs help with her IRS audit.This seemingly innocuous task takes a treacherous turn when Kinsey finds a coded list amongst her friend's files. It soon leads her to an unhinged man with a catalogue of ruined lives left in his wake. And despite the devastation, there isn't a single conviction to his name. It seems this sociopath knows exactly how to cause chaos without leaving a trace. As Kinsey delves deeper into the investigation she quickly becomes the next target of this tormentor.But can Kinsey prove her case against him before she becomes the next victim?

X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss.X: The shortest entry in Websters Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic letter. Notoriously tricky to pronounce: think xylophone.X: The twenty-fourth letter in the English alphabet.Sue Graftons X: Perhaps her darkest and most chilling novel, it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. The test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim.

Kinsey is hired to investigate the mysterious suicide of a woman who she had previously reported for shoplifting. The womans grieving fiancé suspects something is amiss, but Kinsey disagrees, putting her at odds with the man shes working for. Her search soon leads her to an organized retail theft ring and a case she cant walk away from. U IS FOR UNDERTOW debuted at No 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Una mujer con un pasado turbio que mata a sí misma-o que fue un asesinato? Un anciano moribundo atendido por el hijo que azotó sin piedad. Una mujer encantadora, cuya vida está a punto de dividirse en mil pedazos. Un anillo de robo profesional de acumular millones de dólares en bienes robados. Un gángster brutal y sin escrúpulos. Un marido errante, ricos y poderosos. Un niño mimado inundado de juegos de azar en el pensamiento de la deuda que puede vencer al sistema. Un viudo solitario de luto por la muerte de su amante, desesperado en busca de respuestas que pueden ser peor que el dolor de su pérdida. Un hombre de negocios elegante, pero implacable cuyos negocios son definitivamente fuera de la ley: la araña en el centro de la web.

Kinsey Milhone, appearing in her 17th novel, finds herself drawn to a small town in California to try and help two old, ailing detectives solve an 18-year-old crime--the murder of a young woman, whose body was found in a quarry off of California Highway 1. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

A mystery novel featuring Kinsey Millhorne, a wise cracking female detective.

She was a 'Jane Doe', an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on, and after months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case ...and they turn to Kinsey Millhone to help them find closure.But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer. Based on an unsolved homicide that occured in 1969, "Q is for Quarry" and Grafton's interest in the case have renewed police efforts. The body has been exhumed, and a facial reconstruction made that appears in the last pages of the novel. It is hoped that the photograph will trigger memories that may lead to a positive identification.

In her latest adventure, Kinsey Millhone enters the world of noir. A shadowland in which the mysterious disappearance of a prominent physician leads Kinsey into a danger-filled maze of duplicity and double-dealing . . .It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away - never to be seen again.His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal - a former stripper forty years his junior - is just as sure he is dead. Enter private investigator Kinsey Millhone, hired by Fiona to find out just what has happened to the man they loved. Enter also Tommy Hevener, an attractive flame-haired twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey. And Tommy is a man with a very interesting past . . .

El astuto abogado Laurence Fife, conocido también por sus escurridizas aventuras femeninas, aparece un día asesinado. En el juicio, todo conduce al jurado a pensar que su joven esposa, Nikki, es la culpable. Tras ocho años de prision, Nikki sale en libert

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".