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Anyone who knows me will tell you that I cherish my unmarried state. I’m female, twice divorced, no kids and no close family ties. I’m perfectly content to do what I do . . .

It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars.

The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn’t made the deposit.

Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped . . .

‘Grafton on form yet again’ The Times

‘Grafton crafts a crazy, credible puzzle with jigsaw finesse’ Sunday Times

‘An unusually compelling series of novels with a notably convincing central character’ Guardian Sue Grafton has become one of the most popular mystery 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.