Brace yourself for an "ELECTRIFYING and THOROUGHLY SATISFYING" read("Publishers Weekly) "from #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Sue Grafton 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 [...]

The next in the series by bestselling author Sue Grafton. "J" is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead these past five years. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz.
""In truth, the facts about Wendell J[...]

"A woman with a murky past who kills herself.
A dying old man cared for by the son he abused.
A lovely woman whose life is about to shatter.
A professional shoplifting ring. A brutal gangster.
A wandering husband. A spoiled kid awash in debt. A lonely widower
desperate for ans[...]

'Female, age thirty-two, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhone, private investigator, only one thing stays the same. When a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what's going to happen next ...' There was nothing about Beverly Danziger to cause Kin[...]

'My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator ...female, single and self-employed, with a constitutional inability to work for anyone else. I'm a purist when it comes to justice, but I'll lie at the drop of a hat. Inconsistency has never troubled me ...' It was late October, the day before[...]

My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm thirty-two years old, twice married, no kids, currently unattached and likely to remain so given my disposition, which is cautious at best ...Seventeen years had passed since Jean Timberlake's body had been found at the foot of the sea wall. At the time, Bailey Fowler[...]

It was one of those occasions when I suddenly realised how happy I was. I was female, single, with money in my pocket ...I had nobody to answer to and no ties to speak of. As usual I'd forgotten how surges of goodwill merely presage bad news. After a three-week-long investigation, Kinsey couldn't wa[...]

'On the face of it, you wouldn't think there was any connection between the murder of a dead man and the events that changed my perceptions about my life...' For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity - the company that had fired [...]

It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee, the World War II fighter pilot of whom, rather mysteriously, the military authorities have no record. His family are concerned -- perhaps Kinsey could make a few calls, straighten things out? T[...]

Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future, a quick view of events lying in store for us. Some moments we saw would make no sense at all and some, I suspect, would frighten us beyond our endurance ...Early spring in the Sierra Nevada, bringing the usual driving slee[...]

It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away -- never to be seen again. His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still al[...]