Kinsey Millhone mysteries
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Author
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005, ©1982
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nikki Fife, out on parole after spending eight years in prison for the murder of her husband, hires investigator Kinsey Milhone to find out who really killed Laurence, a ruthless divorce attorney who had a wealth of enemies.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 2
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English
Description
Beverly Danziger, who looked like an expensive wrapped package from a good but conservative shop, places a problem before female private eye Kinsey Millhone; there was a will to be settled, and Beverly's sister needs to be found.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 3
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English
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Bobby Callahan was only 20 when an accident left him disfigured for life. The doctors patched up his body but couldn't repair his mind. He knew someone had tried to kill him but didn't know who or why ... so he hired Kinsey Millhone. Three days later he was dead. But Kinsey never welshed on a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing ; now she'd find the killer instead.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 4
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English
Description
He calls himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he has for Kinsey is cut-and-dried: locate a kid who's done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. Stiffed for the retainer, Kinsey finds out Limardo's real name is John Daggett ... ex-con, ex-liar, ex-alchy, currently dead. The cops call it an accident but Kinsey differs. Look at his life! A lot of people hated him, from much-abused wives, to drug dealers out big money, to the families of five people...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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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 6
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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Everyone knew the kind of girl Jean Timberlake was — ask anybody in the sleepy surf town of Floral Beach and they'd say Jean was wild, looking for trouble. But she certainly wasn't looking for murder. She was found dead on the beach seventeen years ago, and a rowdy ex-boyfriend named Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned — and then Bailey escaped. Now private eye Kinsey Millhone steps into a case that should have never been...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 7
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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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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 8
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English
Description
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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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
Kinsey Milhone agrees to take over a case left unsolved by her private eye friend when he died and finds that she has to start from square one and defend her life while she is at it.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1993
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
11) K is for killer
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 11
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English
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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.
12) L is for lawless
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California goes looking for the loot of a $500,000 robbery, an assignment filled with danger as one of the robbers is a psychopath. By the author of "K" Is for Killer.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 13
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English
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"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 is he sooner found, than he is killed. Kinsey has more work to do"--
14) N is for noose
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 14
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California is hired by the widow of a policeman who refused to tell her what was on his mind. Kinsey learns he suspected some policemen of murder. When Kinsey opens an investigation, the town clams up.
15) O is for outlaw
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 15
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.
16) P is for peril
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Series
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Detective Kinsey Millhone searches for a missing nursing home director who was being investigated for Medicare fraud.
17) Q is for quarry
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 17
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Sue Grafton delivers an intensely gripping mystery based on an actual unsolved murder in this #1 New York Times bestseller featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone.
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands...
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands...
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English
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Reba Lafferty, spoiled as a child with privileges, 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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'S' is for silence , Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
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Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
Sue Grafton ups the ante for private investigator Kinsey Millhone like never before in this “taut, terrifying, transfixing”* #1 New York Times bestselling mystery in the Alphabet series.
Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term “Grumpy Gus.” A miser and a hoarder, Gus is so crotchety that after he takes a bad fall, his only living relative...
Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term “Grumpy Gus.” A miser and a hoarder, Gus is so crotchety that after he takes a bad fall, his only living relative...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
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English
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When she is hired by a preppy college dropout to discover what happened to 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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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
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English
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.
23) W is for wasted
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 23
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English
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...
24) X
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Description
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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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 25
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English
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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....