Sue Grafton
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fianc�e, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
2) X
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"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic letter....
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 25
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"The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 17
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
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Eighteen years after the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered in a quarry off California's Highway 1, two police detectives nearing retirement enlist Kinsey Millhone's aid to help identify the long-ago murder victim.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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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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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
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"Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of private eye Kinsey Milhone, the story suddenly shifts to Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs."--Back cover
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 16
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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It's no surprise that Grafton has taken on new territory in her 16th book of the alphabet series, this time entering the world of noir. It's a world cast in shades of black amid shafts of steel and silver, a shadow land in which the disappearance of a prominent physician leads Kinsey Millhone into a danger-filled maze of duplicity as she taps into a cunning Medicare fraud.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Beverley Danziger looked into an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at nervousness beneath her cool surface. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled--a matter of only a few thousand dollars. And she didn't seem like someone longing for a family reunion. Business was slow and she needed to pay bills, so Millhone took what looked like a routine case. It turned tricky when...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.
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" Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee's father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee's past starts coming back to haunt her.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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A Kinsey Millhone mystery.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that someone, for some reason, tried to kill him. Desperate for clues about his own past life and certain he is being stalked, he asks Kinsey to protect him. Kinsey can't resist the brave kid - and neither can the killers. Three days...
14) A is for alibi
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 1
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READ THE SENSATIONAL BLOCKBUSTER THAT STARTED IT ALL!
Take it from the top in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton's knockout thriller that introduced detective Kinsey Millhone—and a hot new attitude—to crime fiction...
A IS FOR AVENGER
A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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When she is hired by a preppy college dropout to discover what happened to a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
16) "N" is for noose
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 14
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California is hired by the widow of a policeman who refused to tell her what was on his mind. Kinsey learns he suspected some policemen of murder. When Kinsey opens an investigation, the town clams up.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 13
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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While investigating the reappearance of the long-presumed-dead Wendell Jaffe, Kinsey Millhone uncovers some unpleasant truths about her own family in the process.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 11
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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In Santa Teresa, California, PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by a mother to investigate her daughter's death, which police are unable to solve. As Millhone probes, there emerges a picture of a two-faceted woman, simple receptionist during the day and porno queen at night. By the author of A Is for Alibi.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Henry Pitt, her longtime landlord asks her to help a fellow neighbor find evidence that his grandfather served in the military during the Second World War. With such proof, the man can be decently buried, courtesy of the U.S. government. It seems such a simple thing, but with Kinsey, it rarely is. Before long she finds herself entangled with an eccentric and quarrelsome family as well as a long lost buddy who has turned up just in time to get himself...