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Thirty-four years after Violet Sullivan's unexplained disappearance, Daisy--the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter she left behind--enlists the assistance of private detective Kinsey Millhone to help her find the truth.
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- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Sue Grafton
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 422
- Publisher
- Berkley, Berkley books, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781845793593
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- Mystery
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Women private investigators
- Fiction
- Missing persons
- Kinsey Millhone (Fictitious character)
- Kinsey Millhone (Fictional character)
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
- Abandoned children
- Mystery fiction
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
- Mothers and daughters
“When Liza Mellincamp thinks about the last time she ever saw Violet Sullivan, what comes most vividly to mind is the color of Violet's Japanese silk kimono, a shade of blue that Liza later learned was called "cerulean," a word that wasn't even in her vocabulary when she was fourteen years old.”
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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