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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
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English
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California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 24
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English
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Wealthy Hallie Bettancourt hires the Santa Teresa, Calif., PI for a simple assignment?find Christian Satterfield, a bank robber recently released from prison who was the baby 15-year-old Hallie gave up for adoption years earlier. Meanwhile, Kinsey agrees to help her friend Ruthie Wolinsky settle some papers belonging to Ruthie?s late husband, Pete, a private detective who was shot the year before in a robbery gone wrong.
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2022.
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English
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Set against the background of World War II, this novel about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream follows rancher Rocky Rhodes as he is faced with a threat greater than the LA Water Corporation he's battled for years--the building of a Japanese=American internment camp next to his ranch.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
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English
Description
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
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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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
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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.
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Series
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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Grace Valley trilogy volume 1
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English
Description
"June Hudson grew up in Grace Valley, the daughter of the town doctor. Leaving only to get her medical training, she returned home and followed in her father's footsteps. Some might say she chose the easy, comfortable route ... but June knows better."--p.[4] of cover.
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
10) L is for lawless
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
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English
Description
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.
11) Q is for quarry
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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.
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English
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1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
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English
Description
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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English
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"Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." —The New York Times Book Review
Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter,...
Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter,...
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
While investigating the reappearance of the long-presumed-dead Wendell Jaffe, Kinsey Millhone uncovers some unpleasant truths about her own family in the process.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 7
Language
English
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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Grace Valley trilogy volume 2
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English
Description
"Here in this peaceful community, folks look out for one another like family, though sometimes a little too well. In a town like this, it's hard to keep a secret-- but Dr. June Hudson has managed to keep one heck of a humdinger..."--p.[4] of cover.
18) B is for burglar
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Series
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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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Series
Grace Valley trilogy volume 3
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English
Description
The Grace Valley gossip mill runs rampant when the town's single doctor, June Hudson, becomes pregnant, the pastor becomes obsessed with poker, and the town's matriarch takes a mysterious lover, but when danger threatens to the destroy the town, everyone joins forces to fight back.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years after the murder of Jean Timberlake at Floral Beach, her self-confessed killer suddenly reappears, and the case reopens.
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