- Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Open Library Staff Picks, Women detectives
Investigator Kinsey Millhone takes on the job of finding the truth about the suspicious death of the sheriff in Nota Lake, California.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Sue Grafton
- First published
- July 1999
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- Ballantine, Fawcett Crest, Holt
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780786212965
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- Private investigators
- Detective and mystery stories
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Women detectives
- Women private investigators
- Fiction
- Kinsey Millhone (Fictitious character)
- Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators -- California -- Fiction
- Women detectives -- California -- Fiction
- California -- Fiction
New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton is published in twenty-eight countries and twenty-six languages--including Estonian, Bulgarian, and Indonesian. Books in her alphabet series, begun in 1982, are international bestsellers with readership in the millions. And like Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, Grafton has earned new respect for the mystery form. Readers appreciate her buoyant style, her eye for detail, her deft hand with character, her acute social observances, and her abundant storytelling prowess. She has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America (2009) and is a recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award (2004). Sue Grafton has been married to Steve H
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