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Kinsey Millhone mysteries

Author:
Grafton, Sue
 
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Star rating for "A" is for alibi
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Series Volume:
0001
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
After serving 8 years for her husband's murder, Nikki Fife is out to find out who really did it.
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Star rating for "B" is for burglar
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Series Volume:
0002
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:
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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Star rating for "C" is for corpse
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Series Volume:
0003
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? It's one of Kinsey's toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he can't shake the feeling it was no random accident and that he's still in danger. The only clues...
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Star rating for "D" is for deadbeat
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Series Volume:
0004
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Sleuth Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the detritus of a dead man's life, a man who was wanted dead by everyone he knew. He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called...
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Star rating for "E" is for evidence
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Series Volume:
0005
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
The last thing Kinsey Millhone 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. She phoned the bank and waited on hold for an officer to clear up the snafu. It was with something less than Christmas cheer that Kinsey faced off only minutes later with California Fidelity's Mac Voorhies. "I got a phone call...
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Star rating for "F" is for fugitive
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Series Volume:
0006
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Floral Beach wasn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found. The people of Floral Beach didn't pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been properly processed and convicted. They weren't even unduly concerned when,...
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Star rating for "G" is for gumshoe
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Series Volume:
0007
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
The divorced ex-cop, Kinsey Millhone, turns 33, is hired to bring a mother back from the desert, and makes a top slot on Tyrone Patty's hit list, all on the same day.
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Star rating for "H" is for homicide
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Series Volume:
0008
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Kinsey Millhone is working on a case involving the death of a claims adjuster for a California insurance company. The story takes her into the Los Angeles barrio in pursuit of a violent criminal, into jails and hospitals, and into a grungy bar named the Meat Locker.
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Star rating for "I" is for innocent
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Series Volume:
0009
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Fired by the insurance agency for whom she investigates, Kinsey is forced to take on a last-minute murder investigation in which the ex-husband of a murdered artist claims that David Barney, her current husband, is guilty as sin. Barney gets to Kinsey and insists he's innocent. But if he is, who's guilty? In trying to learn who's been getting away with murder, Kinsey may be courting her own.
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Star rating for "J" is for judgment
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Series Volume:
0010
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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. By the author of "G is for Gumshoe."
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Star rating for "K" is for killer
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Series Volume:
0011
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
When Lorna Kepler's badly decomposed body was found, the police couldn't discover cause of death. Only Lorna's mother kept the case alive because she thought it was murder.
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Star rating for "L" is for lawless
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Series Volume:
0012
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Get ready for one of Kinsey Millhone's "wildest adventures yet" ( San Francisco Examiner ) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton L is for LIES... When Kinsey Millhone's landlord asks her to help deceased World War II vet Johnnie Lee's family find out why the military has no record of his service, she thinks it'll be a cinch. But she is about to meet her match in world-class prevaricators who take her for the ride of her life. L is...
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Star rating for "M" is for malice
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Series Volume:
0013
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
"M is for MONEY… Malek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction—and one of the few still in family hands. Today, the three Malek sons stand to inherit a fortune, but in order for any one of them to claim his share, the missing fourth brother must be found. M is for MISSING… Now it's up to Kinsey Millhone to find the man who, eighteen years ago, vanished...
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Star rating for "N" is for noose
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Series Volume:
0014
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone puts herself in the gravest danger of her career when she is hired by the widow of Nota Lake detective Tom Newquist to discover what it was that had been bothering Tom in the last six weeks of his life before he died of a heart attack.
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Star rating for O is for outlaw
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Series Volume:
0015
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Let's talk about Kinsey's past. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, and her long-lost family up the California coast. But what about Kinsey's husband number one? He was always a blip on the radar--until now. Kinsey receives a call from a random guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last week, he bought a stack of boxes--and Kinsey's name turned up in them. For thirty bucks, Kinsey buys the lot and...
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Star rating for "P" is for peril
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Series Volume:
0016
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one--a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secret--and now a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what Kinsey should have seen all...
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Star rating for Q is for quarry
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Series Volume:
0017
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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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Star rating for R is for ricochet
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Series Volume:
0018
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
In this #1 New York Times bestseller in Sue Grafton's Alphabet series, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has her hands full when a job that should be easy money takes a turn for the worse.
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but...
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Star rating for S is for silence
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Series Volume:
0019
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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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Star rating for T is for trespass
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Series Volume:
0020
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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Star rating for V is for vengeance
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Series Volume:
0022
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
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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Star rating for W is for wasted
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Series Volume:
0023
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
" Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd...

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Author:
Series Volume:
0024
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Star rating for Y is for yesterday
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Series Volume:
0025
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"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...