Book description
Kinsey Millhone, employed by Nord Lafferty to drive his daughter home
from her incarceration at the Californian Institute for Women, marvels
at the simplicity of the task. But Reba Lafferty emerges feisty and
rebellious, and Kinsey is soon fighting to prevent her charge from
breaking the conditions of her parole.
As she finds herself befriending the ex-gambler, ex-alcoholic and
ex-con, Kinsey discovers that Reba had taken the fall for her boss, also
her lover, when he conducted a highly-crafted money laundering scam.
Alan Beckwith has so far escaped the clutches of the FBI. Now they
believe he is laundering money for a Columbian drug cartel - they just
need the proof.
When Kinsey is asked by the police to persuade Reba to unveil crucial
evidence guaranteed to put Beckwith behind bars, she doesn’t expect
cooperation. But when she hears of shocking new information about her
lover, Reba is suddenly all too eager to do everything she can to ruin
him.
Embroiled in a cunning challenge of wits, and meanwhile bemused by her
own blossoming romance, Kinsey must try to control the bitter, angry
Reba as she launches her dangerous revenge . . . Sue Grafton has
become one of the most popular female writers, both here and in the US.
Born in Kentucky in 1940, the daughter of the mystery writer C. W.
Grafton, she began her career as a TV scriptwriter before Kinsey
Millhone and the ‘alphabet’ series took off. She lives and writes in
Montecito, California, and Louisville, Kentucky.
