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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
Fans have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Milhone's past. But husband number one, vice-cop Mickey Magruder, remained a mystery -- until now.
"A novel of depth and substance that is, in every way, the class of the series." (Booklist)
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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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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 4
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English
Description
Kinsey is hired to deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid but discovers that the person who hired her is a phony who shows up dead when she tries to collect her fee.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 4
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English
Description
When an actor's wife is abducted in Hollywood, the husband turns for help to lawyer Stone Barrington, the wife's ex-boyfriend. For Barrington, it's a dangerous assignment as the Mafia's involved, but he knows danger, having been a New York policeman.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 2
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English
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"Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled -- a matter of a few thousand dollars. Mrs. Danziger didn't look as if she needed the money. And she didn't seem to be longing for a family reunion. Still, there were bills...
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It started with the murder of Kinsey Millhone's sometime drinking buddy, an insurance claims adjuster. But before long Kinsey stumbles onto a massive insurance scam. Going undercover as a wisecracking vamp, Millhone descends into the Los Angeles nether world of machismo and gang hideouts. Her companion, terrified at having crossed the violent crook Raymond Maldonado, is Bibianna Diaz--no Girl Scout herself.
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English
Description
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.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by three brothers to find a fourth who, it appears from their father's will, was not disinherited after all when he walked out on the family, and is entitled to $5 million. Kinsey finds him working as a janitor in a church, but no sooner found, than he is killed. Kinsey has more work.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 11
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English
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In Santa Teresa, California, PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by a mother to investigate her daughter's death, which police are unable to solve. As Millhone probes, there emerges a picture of a two-facetted woman, simple receptionist during the day and porno queen at night. By the author of A Is for Alibi.
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English
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"He was young - maybe twenty or so - and he must once have been a good-looking kid. But now his body was covered in scars, his face half-collapsed. For three weeks Kinsey Millhone had watched him doggedly working out at the local gym. Then one day Bobby Callahan approached her with his story: a murderous assault on a rural road, a 400-foot plunge into the canyon below, his Porsche a ruin, his best friend dead. Even with huge chunks of his memory wiped...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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All Kinsey Millhone must do is keep Reba Lafferty out of trouble after she is released from prison for embezzlement. Her father, Nord Lafferty, is paying Kinsey a lot of money to see that Reba follows all the rules of her parole: no drugs, no booze, no gambling. It seems simple and easy enough, but nothing in life is simple or easy.
15) Exile: a novel
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Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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"David Wolfe is a successful San Francisco lawyer who is about to get married and is being primed for a run for congress. But when Hana Arif -- the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school -- calls, he begins a completely unexpected journey. The next day, the prime minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber while visiting San Francisco; soon, Hana is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder. David faces...
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Series
Kathryn Dance novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Special agent Kathryn Dance and her partners at the California Bureau of Investigation hunt down escaped killer Daniel Pell, a self-styled Charles Manson. Pell is a master of control, who mesmerizes, seduces, and exploits people for his own murderous ends. Pell embarks on a mysterious and deadly quest once he's free.
18) X
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 24
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English
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Sue Grafton's 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.
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