Sue Grafton
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 25
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English
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"The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 23
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English
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Kinsey Millhone is drawn into the investigations of two murders: the first, of a fellow PI with a shady reputation; the second, of a homeless man who has her name and phone number in his pocket. Her inquiries lead to a maze of troubles involving a bank, a will, a large amount of money, and a new connection with her long-lost relatives.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
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English
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Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
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English
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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
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English
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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.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 8
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English
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When Kinsey Millhone tracks an insurance scam to Bibianna Diaz, she finds herself entangled in the murderous path of Bibianna's spurned suitor--gangster Raymond Maldonado.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
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English
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Reba Lafferty, spoiled as a child with priviledges, gets out of jail for embezzlement at the age of 32. Her father is finally there for her and wants her to stay straight at home, so he hires someone to watch her. It seems like easy money, until one of Reba's old crowd comes circling around.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 16
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English
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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.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 7
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English
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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.
10) B is for burglar
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English
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California private eye Kinsey Millhone takes on a case where nothing seems to add up-one apartment burgled of worthless papers, another mindlessly ransacked and destroyed, a house destroyed by arson and a woman brutally slain.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 6
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English
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Seventeen years after the murder of Jean Timberlake at Floral Beach, her self-confessed killer suddenly reappears, and the case reopens.
12) M is for malice
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 13
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English
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At the request of the Malek family, owners of a multi-million-dollar construction company, private detective Kinsey Millhone is hired to trace the missing brother of the troubled and embattled clan, eighteen years after he had vanished without a trace.
13) K is for killer
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 11
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English
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Asked to investigate the death of 25-year-old Lorna Kepler, which occurred 10 months earlier, P.I. Kinsey Millhone uncovers the young woman's secret life as a high-class call girl, her half a million dollars in blue-chip investments, but no clue as to the murderer. The main plot is strengthened by several subplots including the whereabouts of a $20,000 withdrawal made the day of Lorna's death; the misleading spying antics of her landlord's wife; and...
14) L is for lawless
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
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English
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Plucky private investigator Kinsey Millhone is just doing a favor for a friend--checking the military status of a recently deceased neighbor--when she's sucked into a chase for the spoils of a 1941 bank heist.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 3
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English
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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.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 5
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English
Description
When incriminating evidence planted by an unknown party indicates that private eye Kinsey Millhone is on the take, she desperately tries to exonerate herself.
17) O is for outlaw
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 15
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English
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Private detective Kinsey Milhone finds her past coming back to haunt her when an encounter with her first husband and a mysterious undelivered letter discovered among her childhood memorabilia reveal new information about an old unsolved murder.
18) N is for noose
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 14
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English
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Stopping in the Northern California town of Nota Lake on her way home to Santa Theresa, Kinsey is hired by Selma Newquist to investigate why her husband, a police detective, was so moody before his fatal heart attack. What seems to be a routine case quickly becomes something bigger, involving two murders via hanging, with unforeseen consequences for Kinsey and Selma.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 4
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English
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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.