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"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only one letter left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. 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....
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In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal just how much of Kinsey is grounded in her own past. The nine stories that open the book are each gems of detection. So much has happened in the decades since Kinsey made her debut that it's easy to forget she was part of a seismic shift in the private-eye novel. The thirteen stories that form the second part of the book were...
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It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was bogged down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn't pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erroneous $5,000 deposit in her account. Kinsey had never believed in Santa Claus and she wasn't about to change her mind now. Resigning herself to a morning of frustration, she phoned the...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
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Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks. She was never seen again. For the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, Violet's absence has never been explained or forgotten. Now, thirty-four years later, she wants the solace of closure.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
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Kinsey Millhone has been hired by California Fidelity to investigate sightings of a man who disappeared five years before.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
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Kinsey's on the case when the seemingly small task of helping a neighbor, Bucky, obtain burial fees for his deceased veteran grandfather turns into an all-out treasure hunt.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
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Beginning slowly with the day-to day life of private eye Kinsey Millhone, the story suddenly shifts to Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs. Though set in the late eighties, T is for trespass could not be more topical: identity theft; elder abuse; betrayal of trust; the breakdown in the institutions...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
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A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system. A woman with a murky past who kills herself or was it murder? A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring racking up millions in stolen goods. A dirty cop so entrenched on the force he is immune to exposure. A private detective, Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth-birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 16
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[1996]
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The 17th novel in Muller's series featuring San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone, The Broken Promised Land finds McCone assigned to provide security for Ricky Savage, a country-and-western superstar who happens to be McCone's brother-in-law. Savage has been the target of hate notes that are terrorizing the singer, his wife, and six kids. McCone's job is to turn up the culprit before Savage's tour to promote his new album collapses under the weight...
10) The suspect
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Dismas Hardy volume 014
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Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, and homicide inspector Devin Juhle targets a suspect close to home: her husband, Stuart Gorman. After all, Caryn recently asked for a divorce ... and Stuart stands to gain millions in insurance. His alibi - that he was at his cabin on Echo Lake that weekend - doesn't keep him out of hot water. But maybe a shrewd attorney will. Gina Roarke, a partner in Dismas Hardy's firm, is eager to take on...
11) Vanishing point
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 23
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[2006]
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"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.
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