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When a glamorous redhead wishes to locate the son she put up for adoption 32 years ago, it seems like easy money for PI Kinsey Millhone. But it becomes apparent this mystery woman has something to hide. Meanwhile, the widow of Kinsey's old friend, Pete Wolinsky, needs help with her IRS audit. This seemingly innocuous task takes a treacherous turn when Kinsey finds a coded list. It soon leads her to an unhinged man with a catalogue of ruined lives left in his wake.

"A" Is for Alibi: Nikki Fife, convicted of murdering her husband Laurence, is out on parole after eight years of prison. Now, she hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed Laurence. "B" Is for Burglar: Elaine Boldt is missing, and her sister wants Kinsey Millhone to find her. It seems to be a routine job - until Kinsey is ordered to drop the investigation. "C" Is for Corpse: Kinsey Millhone is recruited to help Bobby Callahan, a young man struggling back to life after his Porsche was forced to take a near-fatal nose dive over the edge of a canyon.

Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at 32, she is about to be paroled, having served 22 months of a four-year sentence. Nord Lafferty wants to be sure she stays straight, stays at home and away from the drugs, the booze, the gamblers.

This is the first in the popular series featuring California investigator Kinsey Millhone. She's 32, twice divorced, no kids, an ex-cop who likes her work...and who works strictly alone!

1979: four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a 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 in evidence for the state, and two of his peers are convicted. 1989: one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Unrepentant and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his parents - until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand.

Join Kinsey Millhone on her latest venture into the darker side of the human soul, searching for a missing doctor who is loved by all...or is he?

Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her 33rd birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list.

Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie case to Kinsey Millhone. The flashy widow was last seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her condo in Santa Teresa. Somewhere in between, she vanished. Kinsey's case goes from puzzling to sinister when a house is torched, an apartment is burgled of worthless papers, the lynx coat comes back without Elaine, and her bridge partner is found dead. Soon Kinsey's clues begin to form a capital M, not for missing, but for murder: and plenty of it.

A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks routine...boring. Still, business is slow and even a private investigator has bills to pay, so Kinsey Millhone takes the case. But this is not routine and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get. The client tries to call Kinsey off, an accusing husband surfaces, and a double murder turns the case sinister.

When her elderly neighbour Gus has an accident, Kinsey Millhone is relieved - at first - when his niece organises a nurse for him. Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn't turn up anything suspicious. But Kinsey's not convinced - especially when Gus seems to be getting worse under his nurse's tender care.

Bobby Callahan was only 20 when an accident left him disfigured for life. Huge chunks of his memory were lost but he knew someone had tried to kill him and that the "accident" was deliberate. He knew he had the key to something that made him dangerous to the murderer but he didn't know what. No one believed him...so he hired Kinsey Millhone.

The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last weekend he bought a stack. They had stuff in them: Kinsey stuff. For 30 bucks, he'll sell her the lot. Kinsey's never been one for personal possessions, but curiosity wins out, and she hands over a 20. What she finds amid childhood memorabilia is an old undelivered letter. And it will put her life in the gravest peril.

Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and slippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The jury believed that it was his pretty young wife Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years. Now, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Millhone's in for trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover who really killed her husband. But the trail is eight years cold, and at the end is a chilling twist even Kinsey doesn't suspect, a second eight-year-old murder and a brand new corpse.

An exciting mystery anthology of short stories by assorted writers including Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton.

Floral Beach - ein unscheinbares Nest an der kalifornischen Küste. Ein 17 Jahre zurückliegender Mord versetzt die Bewohner in Aufregung, als der angebliche Mörder plötzlich gefasst wird. Die Privatdetektivin Kinsey Millhone soll seine Unschuld beweisen und gerät auf die dunkle Seite der so friedlich scheinenden Kleinstadtgesellschaft: Intrigen, alte Verletzungen und tödliche Leidenschaften.

Acht Jahre ist es her, dass der skrupellose Anwalt Laurence Fife ermordet wurde. Acht Jahre saß seine junge und schöne Frau Nikki unschuldig im Gefängnis. Als sie endlich auf Bewährung freikommt, wendet sie sich an Privatdetektivin Kinsey Millhone, die sich auf die Suche nach dem wahren Mörder begibt. Kinsey Millhone lässt nicht locker und gerät immer tiefer in einen Strudel aus Leidenschaft, Verzweiflung und Hass, dem sie sich nicht entziehen kann.

Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that someone, for some reason, tried to kill him. Desperate for clues about his own past life and certain he is being stalked, he asks Kinsey to protect him.

Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at 32, she is about to be paroled, having served 22 months of a four-year sentence. Nord Lafferty wants to be sure she strays straight, stays at home and away from the drugs, the booze, the gamblers.

Nach fünfunddreißig Jahren Dienst im District Nota Lake ist auf einmal alles vorbei. Ganz unerwartet erliegt der altbewährte Detective Tom Newquist einem Herzversagen. Doch seine Witwe Selma findet keine Ruhe. Zu merkwürdig erscheinen ihr die Umstände seines Todes: Er wurde nachts in seinem Dienstfahrzeug entdeckt - tot am Steuer, bei laufendem Motor und brennenden Scheinwerfern.

Als der Chef einer hochangesehenen Firma stirbt, stehen seine vier Söhne vor einem millionenschweren Erbe. Der jüngste Sohn Guy sollte eigentlich enterbt werden, doch das Testament ist unauffindbar. Wenig später ist Guy tot - feige ermordet im Schlaf. Privatdetektivin Kinsey Millhone ermittelt, und sie stößt auf obskure Machenschaften des machthungrigen Clans, die weit in die Vergangenheit zurückreichen.