"D" is for Deadbeat: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
- ISBN-10
- 1429909323
- ISBN-13
- 9781429909327
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 230
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-04-01
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks
- Author
- Sue Grafton
Description
Sue Grafton's #1 New York Times bestselling series, reissued for a whole new generation of readers! D IS FOR DEADBEAT He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident--death by drowning. Kinsey wasn't so sure. Pulled into the detritus of a dead man's life, Kinsey soon realizes that Daggett had an awful lot of enemies. There's the daughter who grew up with a cheating drunk for a father, and the wife who's become a religious nut in response to an intolerable marriage. There's the lady who thought she was Mrs. Daggett--and has the bruises to prove it--only to discover the legal Mrs. D. And there are the drug dealers out $25,000. But most of all, there are the families of the five people John Daggett killed, victims of his wild, drunken driving. The D.A. called it vehicular manslaughter and put him away for two years. The families called it murder and had very good reason to want John Daggett dead. Deft, cunning, and clever, this latest Millhone mystery also confronts some messy truths, for, as Kinsey herself says, "Some debts of the human soul are so enormous only life itself is sufficient forfeit"--but as she'd be the first to admit, murder is not a socially acceptable solution. "A" Is for Alibi "B" Is for Burglar "C" Is for Corpse "D" Is for Deadbeat "E" Is for Evidence "F" Is for Fugitive "G" Is for Gumshoe "H" Is for Homicide "I" Is for Innocent "J" Is for Judgment "K" Is for Killer "L" is for Lawless "M" Is for Malice "N" Is for Noose "O" Is for Outlaw "P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry "R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass "U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
D is for Deadbeat: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
By Sue GraftonD is for Deadbeat is the fourth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.
-
D is for Deadbeat: A Kinsey Millhone Novel 4
By Sue GraftonBook 4 in the Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series from the New York Times bestselling author, Sue Grafton.
-
R Is for Ricochet
By Sue GraftonPrivate 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.
-
Dead Beat
By Jim ButcherMorgan's lips worked soundlessly, but he didn't release the strike he held ready in his hand. “Morgan,” the girl said, quietly this time. “It's all right. Stand down.” “You aren't the captain,” Morgan mumbled. “You can't be.
-
"B" is for Burglar: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
By Sue GraftonB is for Burglar, from Sue Grafton's #1 New York Times bestselling Kinsey Millhone Alphabet mystery series Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop.
-
"A" is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
By Sue GraftonPHENOMENAL PRAISE FOR THE MYSTERY NOVELS OF #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SUE GRAFTON “Exceptionally entertaining ... An offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Millhone is an engaging ...
-
X
By Sue GraftonThis superior outing will remind readers why this much-loved series will be missed as the end of the alphabet approaches.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss.
-
"G" is for Gumshoe: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
By Sue GraftonFirst, Kinsey's car is run off the road, and then days later, she's almost gunned down, setting in motion a harrowing cat and mouse game... G IS FOR GUMSHOE So Kinsey decides to hire a bodyguard.
-
"F" is for Fugitive: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
By Sue GraftonThere was a fishing trawler in drydock, its exposed hull tapering to a rudder as narrow as the blade of an ice skate. I found a spigot near a corrugated metal shed and doused my head, drinking deeply before I headed back, my leg muscles ...
-
"N" is for Noose: A Kinsey Millhone Novel
By Sue GraftonVery likely, her own."N" Is for Noose: a novel in which Kinsey Millhone becomes the target and an entire town seems in for the kill.