Female, age 32, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhone, Private Investigator, only one thing stays the same. When a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what's going to happen next. This is the third book in the critically acclaimed Kinsey Millhone series.

Lorna Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. She has also been found dead in mysterious circumstances and her death pulls Kinsey Millhone into a netherworld of deception, betrayal and unavenged murder.

The fifteenth novel in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, now with a stunning new look

The seventeenth novel in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, now with a stunning new look

The eighteenth novel in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, now with a stunning new look

The nineteenth novel in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, now with a stunning new look

The twentieth novel in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, now with a stunning new look

The twenty first novel in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, now with a stunning new look

The alphabet mysteries continue with a curious case for private investigator Kinsey Millhone.

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 been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him. Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other...