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A woman with a murky past who kills herself—or was it murder? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system. A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring working for the Mob, racking up millions from stolen...

Selvom det står lidt sløjt til med forretningen, er privatdetektiv Kinsey Millhone lidt tilbageholdende overfor at tage Berverly Danzigers eftersøgning af hendes søster Elaine Boldt på sig. Det er en lille sag, som Beverly sagtens kunne klare selv – så hvorfor drage Kinsey ind i den?...

“J” for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, formodet død de sidste fem år. Eller sådan så det ud, indtil hans tidligere forsikringsagent spottede ham i baren på et støvet lille hotel halvvejs mellem Cabo San Lucas og La Paz. Og selvom Jaffe ved sin “død” var konkurs, var han ikke uden aktiver...

Der var ikke mange der sørgede, da Laurence Fife blev myrdet. Den fremtrædende skilsmisseadvokat var kendt for sin rå og hensynsløse opførsel i forretningslivet. Og så var der alle rygterne om hans mange affærer. Mange mennesker i den maleriske sydcaliforniske by Santa Teresa ønskede ham...

He calls himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he has for Kinsey is cut-and-dried: locate a kid who's done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. Stiffed for the retainer, Kinsey finds out Limardo's real name is John Daggett... ex-con, ex-liar-, ex-alchy, currently dead. The cops call it an...

Bailey Fowler, a confessed murderer, escaped from prison 16 years ago. Now, by sheer chance, the cops stumble on him--and a case long dead comes murderously back to life. Royce Fowler, old and sick, ready it "miraculously back to life." His son's reappearance gives Royce a last chance to heal an...

It started with the murder of Kinsey Millhone's sometime drinking buddy, an insurance claims adjuster. But before long Kinsey stumbles onto a massive insurance scam. Going undercover as a wisecracking vamp, Millhone descends into the Los Angeles nether world of machismo and gang hideouts. Her...

Kinsey Millhone's latest cliet is Malek Construction, a 40 million company still in family hands. It doesn't take an accountant to see that the four Malek brothers stand to inherit a fortune. But one of the missing brothers has been missing for 18 years, and Kinsey's assignment is to find him...

When an extra $5000 shows up in her bank account, Kinsey Millhone puts it down to a clerical error. But suddenly the deposit makes sense. It's not a mistake, it's a setup. Kinsey now has a new client: herself/ As she unravels the frame, she finds her future tied to one family's secret, hidden...

Man verschenkt nicht mal eben 25.000 Dollar. Doch der Mann, der bei Kinsey Millhone, Privatdetektivin aus Kalifornien, am Tag vor Halloween auftaucht und sich als Alvin Limardo vorstellt, hat genau das im Sinn. Kinsey soll einen Jungen ausfindig machen, dem Limardo viel zu verdanken hat, und diesem das Geld überbringen. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen professionellem Interesse und Argwohn nimmt die Ermittlerin den ungewöhnlichen Auftrag schließlich an. Doch schon bald muss sie erkennen, dass nichts an diesem Fall so ist, wie es scheint.

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. Plenty of people had reason to want him dead. But the police thought his wife Nikki--with motive, access and opportunity--was the #1 suspect. The jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki hires Kinsey Millhone, a...

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. Plenty of people had reason to want him dead. But the police thought his wife Nikki - with motive, access and opportunity - was the #1 suspect. The jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki hires Kinsey Millhone, a...

R Is for Ricochet is another thrilling installment in Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone series. Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn’t there for her when she was convicted of...

In this rich, complex and gripping tale, Kinsey Millhone's grit is tested to its utmost as the private detective unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal--and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "'G' is for guilt and guile, for greed and...

A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks routine... boring. Still, business is slow and even a private investigator has bills to pay, so Kinsey Millhone takes the case. But this is not routine and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get. The client tries to call...

Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Theresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed...

Bobby Callahan was only 20 when an accident left him disfigured for life. The doctors patched up his body but they couldn't fix his mind. Huge chunks of his memory were lost but he knew someone had tried to kill him and that the "accident" was deliberate. He knew he had the key to something that...

Here together for the first time on CD are the three mysteries that started it all, introducing sexy, savvy ex-cop turned P.I. Kinsey Millhone to listeners everywhere… “A” Is for AlibiNikki Fife, convicted of murdering her husband Laurence, is out on parole after eight years of prison. Now...

R Is for Ricochet is another thrilling installment in Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone series. Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn’t there for her when she was convicted of...

In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey’s origins and Sue’s past. “I've come to believe that...