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When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer-and sharper-than she imagined. If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge.

But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy.Ī IS FOR ALIBI.

Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer.

Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. She's a twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments but with a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes.Ī IS FOR ACCUSED. A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. "Grafton has created a woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious loner.smart, well paced, and very funny.A IS FOR AVENGER. "Kinsey Millhone is smart, sexual, likable and a very modern operator. Paperback | Published by Henry Holt and Co. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively loyal to a dead partner—and disarmingly attractive to Millhone to an ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely—and still angry over Fife's betrayal of her to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few skills—and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include every turn until it finally twists back on itself with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter, wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted. The jury thought so too.Įight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.Ī trail that is eight years cold. With motive, access, and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing.