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The nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton's ever popular 'alphabet' series featuring PI Kinsey Millhone. More info to come...

In the 18th alphabetical mystery starring private detective Kinsey Milhone, a wealthy, indulgent father hires Kinsey to pick up his daughter Reba from the prison where she was serving a sentence for embezzlement. All Kinsey has to do is watch over Reba as she adjusts to life outside of prison, ensure she follows the terms of her parole, and keep her away from the bad company that landed her in prison in the first place. Naturally, complications set in fairly rapidly...

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.

La investigadora privada Kinsey Milhone tiene problemas para llegar a fin de mes el día en que no tiene más remedio que aceptar el rutinario encargo de buscar a la hermana de Mrs. Danziger,

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.

La víctima no havia estat identificada i el seu cos, en estat de descomposició, havia estat descobert prop d’una pedrera al costat de la carretera 1 de Califòrnia. Es tractava d’una dona jove i blanca que duia les mans lligades amb un filferro i li havien tallat el coll. Després d’uns mesos d’investigació rutinària per part del Xèrif del comtat de Santa Teresa, el cas havia quedat sense resoldre. Divuit anys després, els policies que havien trobat el cos, ja al final de la seva carrera professional, van voler resoldre el cas i van demanar ajuda a la detectiva Kinsey Millhone.

X is the New York Times number 1 bestseller and thrilling, twenty-fourth book in the Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series from 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 private investigator 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?

David Barney, acusado de matar a su riquísima mujer Isabelle, llevaba cinco años absuelto cuando aparece muerto el detective Morley Shine, encargado por Lonnie -el abogado del primer marido de Isabelle- de investigar el caso con el fin de reabrirlo e impedir que Barney se apodere definitivamente de la fortuna de su esposa. Cuando Kinsey Millhone acepta hacerse cargo del asunto, está convencida de que se trata tan sólo de atar unos cuantos cabos sueltos, ya que Shine era un viejo zorro que se las sabía todas. Pero su sorpresa es mayúscula cuando se encuentra con que los archivos de Shine están patas arriba, que su principal informante es de muy poco fiar y que sus testigos niegan haberse entrevistado con él, y, lo que es peor, que todo lo que afirma Barney para probar su inocencia resulta ser cierto. De modo que, si Barney no mató a su mujer, ¿quién lo hizo ? Le tocará a Kinsey descubrir que Isabelle Barney se había buscado a más de un enemigo…

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.