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The first Kinsey Millhone mystery. Millhone is a private investigator from Santa Teresa, California. She is hired by Nikki Fife to find out who killer her husband. Nikki had been convicted of the murder and sentenced to 8 years in prison. Throughout her time in prison, Nikki maintained her innocence. Nikki is now out of jail and Kinsey is on the trail. 209 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8".
"A" is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
Grafton, Sue
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1989.
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Just two months after California Fidelity paid a half million dollars on a life insurance policy, the man who had presumably died five years before is spotted in a bar. Is he truly dead, or was his disappearance yet another of his shady schemes? Kinsey Millhone investigates. 288 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
"J" is for Judgment
Grafton, Sue
New York: Henry Holt, 1993.
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Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone helps a grieving mother find answers about her daughter's death in this eleventh book in the series. Winner of the 1995 Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus Award for the Best PI Novel. 284 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
"K" is for Killer
Grafton, Sue
New York: Henry Holt, 1994.
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In the twelfth book of the series featuring Kinsey Millhone, she takes off on a cross-country adventure. 290 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
"L" is for Lawless
Grafton, Sue
New York: Henry Holt, 1995.
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Ever wonder what's behind the sliding doors of those storage places? PI Kinsey Millhone unexpectedly finds out when a salvage buyer calls to tell her he's just bought some of her personal stuff. From there, Kinsey finds herself investigating not someone else's past, but her own. 318 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
"O" Is for Outlaw
Grafton, Sue
New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
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Kinsey Millhone investigates the disappearance of prominent doctor Dowan Purcell, a man with no apparent enemies, but who has been missing for weeks. Everyone has a theory about his fate. Will one of them lead Kinsey to the missing doctor? 276 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4." Jacket art by Tafuri/Redmer.
"P" is for Peril
Grafton, Sue
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.
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PI Kinsey Millhone assists two near-retirement cops in identifying a murder victim from 18 years before. 385 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Thomas Tafuri.
"Q" is for Quarry
Grafton, Sue
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
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Author's first novel, introducing Sherry Moore, a blind woman who has the extraordinary ability to touch a corpse and see the last 18 seconds of that person's life. In this novel, Sherry assists the police in finding a serial killer, returned to the New Jersey shore, where he murdered a number of young women thirty years before. 311 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2".
18 Seconds
Shuman, George D.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
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Winner of the 1991 Lambda Award. Hansen introduced gay Private Investigator Dave Brandstetter in Fadeout. This book is the twelfth, and according to the subtitle, last of the series. In this novel, the now retired Brandstter looks into a child kidnapping that also involves murder. 177 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Jacket illustration by John Jinks.
A Country of Old Men: The Last Dave Brandstetter Mystery
Hansen, Joseph
New York: Viking Press, 1991.
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Wedding bells are chiming for Nora Blackbird and her mobster boyfriend. Meanwhile, actress Penny Devine, daughter of the Philadelphia Devines, has disappeared, and everyone had a reason to wish her demise, including Nora. 280 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4".
A Crazy Little Thing Called Death: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery
Martin, Nancy
New York: New American Library, 2007.
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Jenny McPartland, a divorced mother of two girls, marries the man of her dreams. Or so she thinks. After their marriage, her new husband, artist Erich Krueger, takes Jenny and her girls to his home in Minnesota. Living in the elegant mansion is exciting at first, but it soon turns into a terrifying prison. Jenny must unravel the house's history to save her life and that of her children. This is the book on which the movie of the same name was based. 317 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket painting and design by Wendell Minor.
A Cry in the Night
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
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The Halloween Howl turns deadly, when the local pharmacist is killed in a car accident. Sheriff Matt Gabriel reaches the man before he dies, and his last words are a confession--but to what? The answer lies in the past, to a Halloween long ago. 344 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Tim O'Brien.
A Few Dying Words
Gosling, Paula
New York: Warner Books, 1994.
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Signed by the author on title page. Sixth book in the Louis Searing and Margaret McMillan series. While crossing Lake Michigan on the ferry S.S. Badger, Michigan State University professor Peg Lott admits to fellow passenger that she is part of a group of ecoterrorists that has been burning down wealthy peoples' houses. When a woman is found murdered in Peg's stateroom on the ferry, Lou Searing investigates. 233 pp. 8 1/2" X 5/12".
A Final Crossing: Murder on the S.S. Badger. A Louis Searing and Margaret McMillan Mystery
Baldwin, Richard L.
Haslett, MI: Buttonwood Press, 2004.
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Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson and Millers Kill police chief Russ Van Alstyne have more on their minds than a mutual attraction in this follow-up to Spencer-Fleming's "In the Bleak Midwinter." The small upstate New York town is afflicted with gay-bashing, a contaminated water supply, and environmentalists up in arms against a resort development. Winner of the 2004 Barry Award for Best Novel. 320 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein.
A Fountain Filled With Blood
Spencer-Fleming, Julia
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2003.
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"Chink" Peters is on his way to New Zealand with a shipment of horses when he reads a news report of the murder of two women in Greenwich Village. Chink knew the women, who were sisters. They were the daughters of Wally Diefenbach, Chink's former commanding officer, and Chink had taught them to ride when they were children. Upon his return from New Zealand, Diefenbach asks Chink to come to New York to look into the murder. His investigation uncovers far more than the person who committed the crime. 311 pp. 9" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Holly McNeely.
A Game Men Play
Bourjaily, Vance
New York: Dial Press, 1980.
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300 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 3/8".
A Little Yellow Dog
Mosley, Walter
New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
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A woman has drowned in Eastport, Massachussets, and Chief of Police Dan Burke enlists the aid of Brother Bartholomew of Faith Abbey. Complicating the investigating is the disappearance of $10 million in diamonds known to have been in the possession of the woman before she died. Signed by author on title page. 314 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 5/8".
A Matter of Diamonds: A Faith Abbey Mystery
Manuel, David
Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2000.
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Father Robert O'Brien is killed in a drive-by shooting in Washington, DC. Detectives Frank Kearny and Jose Phelps are assigned to the case. Far from being a random, motiveless crime, Kearny and Phelps learn that Father O'Brien's death reaches to the highest levels of DC politics. 285 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Thomas Tafuri.
A Murder of Honor
Andrews, Robert
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.
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On the Channel Island of Guernsey, American China River is being held for the murder of philanthropist Guy Brouard. Brouard, at the time of his death, was working on a museum honoring island residents who resisted the Nazis in World War II. When China' brother Cherokee asks China's old friend, Deborah St. James, for help, Deborah and her husband Simon, characters in George's Lynley and Havers series, travel to Guernsey, where they discover there is no shortage of other suspects who wanted Brouard dead. 514 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4".
A Place of Hiding
George, Elizabeth
New York: Bantam Books, 2003.
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284 pp. 8 1/8" X 5 3/8".
A Red Death
Mosley, Walter
New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
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