Floral Beach, California could barely be called a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. And seventeen years ago Jean Timberlake, promiscuous high schooler, was found strangled on that strip of sand. The people of Floral Beach hadn’t thought of Jean since shortly after her body had been found: Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been properly processed and convicted. It didn’t even matter that a year after the conviction,  Fowler walked away from […]

It’s the holiday season; the one time of the year that being a twice-divorced, independent loner does not work for P.I. Kinsey Millhone. With everyone she’s reasonably close to with their own holiday plans, she needs something as a diversion to ward off the blues. She gets that (and more) with a case that places her career on the line; what started out as a simple look into an industrial arson case for California Fidelity (the insurance company Kinsey used to work for, and who […]