He called himself Alvin Limardo, and according to him, he had a simple job for Kinsey: locate some fifteen-year-old who’d done him a favor once and pass on a check for $25,000. But then the $400 check for his retainer bounced. And that’s when Kinsey discovered his name was actually John Daggett; ex-con, iInveterate liar, chronic drunk, and before Kinsey can find him and either get her retainer or (more her preference) give the check back and wash her hands of the whole business, dead. […]

Shortly after the events of “B” is for Burglar, Kinsey is just trying to get through her physical therapy and not scream too loudly from boredom. That all changes when she’s hired by twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan. He wants Kinsey to find out why someone tried to kill him by forcing his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon; he knew at one time, but the accident has stripped the reasons from his memory. Unfortunately, even if Bobby has forgotten the perpetrator hasn’t, and barely […]

Just two weeks after the events of ‘A’ is for Alibi, Kinsey Millhone is hitting a slow time at the office. Unfortunately, this is put a stop to by Beverly Danziger; she wants Kinsey to find her sister Elaine Boldt. There’s a small legal matter that Beverly needs Elaine’s signature; one so small, she could just look for Elaine herself. Yet she’s asking Kinsey to find her instead. The whole affair doesn’t sit well with Kinsey. And if there’s something she’s learned in her line […]