" 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...

The fourth, fifth, and sixth novels in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series.

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. Plenty of people had reason to want him dead. But the police thought his wife Nikki--with motive, access and opportunity--was the #1 suspect. The jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki hires Kinsey Millhone, a gutsy P.I., to find the read killer. The trail is cold but Kinsey finds a lead. It brings her face-to-face with the murderer. This is the first in the popular...

In "D" is for deadbeat, 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. -- In "E" is for evidence, Kinsey is investigating a routine insurance claim that turns into non-routine trouble. -- In "F" is for fugitive, Kinsey is asked to find an escaped murderer for his father.

"G" is for gumshoe : Kinsey Millhone's thrity-third birthday brings about final renovations to her apartment, a new ase, and the top slot on Tyrone Patty's hit list. Obviously, it would turn out to be a birthday to remember. "H" is for homicide : To the cops, the death of claims adjuster Parnell Perkins looked like a robbery gone sour ; to Kinsey Millhone, it looks strangely suspicious. As the evidence leads Kinsey to insurance scammer Bibianna...