Цикл книг «Кинси Милхаун» — 25 книг

Она - женственная красавица с неженской профессией. С опасной профессией. Она - лучшая из частных детективов штата Калифорния. Штата хищниц-кинозвезд, акул-продюсеров, амбициозных режиссеров. Штата богатства и роскоши, изощренных интриг и закулисных войн.Это - ее новое дело. Дело, которое кажется абсолютно простым. Всего-то - отыскать то ли сбежавшую, то ли по каким-то причинам не подающую о себе вестей девушку. Однако неожиданно дело начинает набирать обороты - и становится лишь первым шагом в запутанном лабиринте преступлений. Преступлений опасных, изощренных и на первый взгляд не связанных между собой...

Она - женственная красавица с неженской профессией. С опасной профессией. Она - лучшая из частных детективов штата Калифорния. Штата хищниц-кинозвезд, акул-продюсеров, амбициозных…

C IS FOR CALCULATED

How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? It's one of Kinsey's toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he can't shake the feeling it was no random accident and that he's still in danger…

C IS FOR CRIME

The only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name "Blackman." Bobby can't remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when he's killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey.

C IS FOR CORPSE

As Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing for―and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early death…

C IS FOR CALCULATED

How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? It's one of Kinsey's toughest cases yet, but she never…

When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhone's office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. It's a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesn't deliver the money himself. She's almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardo's retainer against her better judgment…

When Limardo's check bounces, Kinsey discovers she's been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggett--an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett.

When Daggett's corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks it's murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained for--and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she could've ever imagined…

When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhone's office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. It's a simple matter.…

E is for Evidence

Floral Beach wasn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found.

The people of floral Beach didn't pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been properly processed and convicted. They weren't even unduly concerned when, a year after the murder, Fowler walked away from the men's prison at San Luis Obispo, never to be seen again. After all, everyone knew Jean had been a wild kid. "Like mother, like daughter," some said--though never within hearing of Shana Timberlake, who, whatever her faults, still mourned her murdered child.

And then, by sheer fluke, the cops stumbled on Bailey Fowler. And a case seventeen years dead came murderously to life again.

For Royce Fowler, old and sick with not much time left, his son's reappearance was the chance to heal an old wound. For Kinsey Millhone, the case was a long shot, but she agreed to take it on. She couldn't know then it would lead her to probe the passions buried just below the surface of family relations, where old wounds fester and the most cherished emotions become warped until they fuse into deadly, soul-destroying time bombs

Floral Beach wasn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago…

"One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . 'G' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can't wait for 'H' ."
--Louise Bernikow, Cosmopolitan

Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list. It's the last that convinces Kinsey even she can't handle whoever's been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey's body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it's over, she'll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . .

"Wit is the most versatile weapon in Sue Grafton's well-stocked arsenal, and she uses it with disarming precision. . . . Grafton excels in this milieu."
--Newsweek

"The story is complex; the body-count high; the sexual encounters feverish; and the villains chilling--in another can't-put-it-down outing for this talented author."
--Kirkus Reviews


From the Paperback edition.

"One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . 'G' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can't wait for 'H' ."
--Louise Bernikow, Cosmopolitan…

"THE LADY CAN WRITE . . .

Any reader who needs a smart and sassy P.I. would do well to hire Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. . . . H' is for Homicide continues to show the author in strong storytelling form. . . . [It] finds Kinsey Millhone working on a case involving the death of a claims adjuster for a California insurance company. The story takes her into the Los Angeles barrio in pursuit of a violent criminal, into jails and hospitals, and into a grungy bar named the Meat Locker. . . . Count on Millhone not only to corner the murderer but also to make a statement against the foibles of the insurance game."
--The New York Times

"The eighth in Grafton's bestselling series is perhaps the wildest ride yet. . . . Grafton's skill with dialogue, her vivid characterizations and California scenery are priceless. . . . There are moments when the tension becomes so unbearable that you are tempted to skip paragraphs out of self-preservation."
--USA Today

"One of the best . . . A vivid, funny portrait of life in an ethnic underworld, viewed without judgment. Suspense there is, plentifully, and a final suggestion that Kinsey will be exploring different mischiefs next time. Outstanding."
--Los Angeles Times

"THE LADY CAN WRITE . . .

Any reader who needs a smart and sassy P.I. would do well to hire Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. . . . H' is for Homicide continues to show the…

Главная героиня книги, частный детектив Кинси Милхоун, расследует убийство… и, как выясняется, не одно. Клубок противоречий, череда подозреваемых, неожиданная развязка - события проносятся по страницам этого увлекательного романа, как сметающий все на своем пути тайфун.

Главная героиня книги, частный детектив Кинси Милхоун, расследует убийство… и, как выясняется, не одно. Клубок противоречий, череда подозреваемых, неожиданная развязка - события…

Пять лет назад внезапно исчез, выйдя в море на своей яхте, предприниматель Венделл Джаффе. И хотя тело его не нашли, версия о том, что, запутавшись в долгах, Джаффе покончил с собой, казалась весьма убедительной. До тех пор, пока частный детектив Кинси Милхоун не обнаружила самоубийцу в Мексике…

Пять лет назад внезапно исчез, выйдя в море на своей яхте, предприниматель Венделл Джаффе. И хотя тело его не нашли, версия о том, что, запутавшись в долгах, Джаффе покончил с…

Она любила рисковать. Опасность для нее была своего рода наркотиком. Доза становилась все круче, все страшнее, но Лорна Кеплер уже не могла остановиться. Это сделала за нее Смерть. Полиция закрывает дело "за неимением состава преступления". Но частный детектив Кинси Милхоун уверена: это убийство.

Она любила рисковать. Опасность для нее была своего рода наркотиком. Доза становилась все круче, все страшнее, но Лорна Кеплер уже не могла остановиться. Это сделала за нее…

When Kinsey Millhone is asked by a friend to help a family obtain a military funeral for a pilot called Johnny Lee, she soon finds that there was nothing simple about Johnny Lee's life. Why do the airforce have no record of him? And why is his apartment burgled soon after his death?
Then there is the large key which is found. What is it for? What secrets will it unlock?
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Retold by John Escott.

When Kinsey Millhone is asked by a friend to help a family obtain a military funeral for a pilot called Johnny Lee, she soon finds that there was nothing simple about Johnny Lee's…

M is for MONEY…

Malek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction―and one of the few still in family hands. Today, the three Malek sons stand to inherit a fortune, but in order for any one of them to claim his share, the missing fourth brother must be found.

M is for MISSING…

Now it's up to Kinsey Millhone to find the man who, eighteen years ago, vanished without a trace. Did he run away―or was he abducted? Did he intend to make something of himself on his own, apart from the wealth and prowess of his family, or were his motives something more sinister?

M is for MALICE

The ties that bind. The rivalries of brotherhood. The fall of an empire… As Kinsey tries to unravel the mystery of the missing Malek brother she finds herself in a heart-stopping race against time in which loyalties are tested, greed is rampant, and no one―including Kinsey herself―is safe…

M is for MONEY…

Malek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction―and one of the few…

Kinsey Millhone should have done something else--she should have turned the car in the direction of home. Instead, she was about to put herself in the gravest jeopardy of her career.

Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office--a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, smoked too much, and exercised too little. That plus an appetite for junk food made him a poster boy for an American Heart Association campaign. Newquist's widow didn't doubt the coroner's report. But what Selma couldn't accept was not knowing what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life. What was it that had made him prowl restlessly at night, that had him brooding constantly? Selma Newquist wanted closure, and the only way she'd get it was if she found out what it was that had so bedeviled her husband. Kinsey should have dumped the case. It was vague and hopeless, like looking for a needle in a haystack. Instead, she set up shop in Nota Lake, where she found that looking for a needle in a haystack can draw blood. Very 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.

Kinsey Millhone should have done something else--she should have turned the car in the direction of home. Instead, she was about to put herself in the gravest jeopardy of her…

O Is for Outlaw

Частный детектив Кинси Миллоун берется за банальное на первый взгляд дело об исчезновении состоятельного врача, которому, скорее всего, просто наскучила семейная жизнь. Но вскоре выясняется, что партнеры пропавшего были нечисты на руку и он знал об их махинациях, что его жены – бывшая и настоящая – весьма заинтересованы в получении миллионной страховки, что многие готовы любой ценой остановить расследование Кинси. И при этом главная опасность исходит от ее нового ухажера – красавца техасца с темным прошлым.

Частный детектив Кинси Миллоун берется за банальное на первый взгляд дело об исчезновении состоятельного врача, которому, скорее всего, просто наскучила семейная жизнь. Но вскоре…

She was a 'Jane Doe', an Unidentified White Female Whose Decomposed Body was Discovered Near a Quarry off California's Highway 1. The Case Fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the Detectives had Little to go on, and After Months of Investigation, the Murder Remained Unsolved.
That was Eighteen Years Ago. Now the two Men who Found the Body, Both Nearing the end of Long Careers in Law Enforcement, want One Last Shot at the Case... And they Turn to Kinsey Millhone to Help Them Find Closure.
But Revisiting the Past can be a Dangerous Business, and what Begins with the Pursuit of Jane Doe's Real Identity Ends in a High-Risk Hunt for her Killer. Based on an Unsolved Homicide that Occured in 1969, Q is for Quarry and Grafton's Interest in the Case Have Renewed Police Efforts. The body has Been Humed, and a Facial Reconstruction Made that Appears in the Last Pages of the Novel. It is Hoped that the Photograph Will Trigger Memories that May lead to a Positive Identification.

She was a 'Jane Doe', an Unidentified White Female Whose Decomposed Body was Discovered Near a Quarry off California's Highway 1. The Case Fell to the Santa Teresa County…

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...

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…

Красавица Виолетта Сачливан отправилась полюбоваться фейерверками - и исчезла.
По маленькому городу поползли слухи...
Миссис Салливан сбежала с любовником?!
Ее изнасиловали и убили?!
От нее избавился ревнивый муж, заподозривший ее в неверности?!
Полиция не обнаружила ничего.
Дочь Виолетты, Дейзи, решает расследовать тайну исчезновения матери и нанимает Кинси Миллхоун, самую талантливую женщину-детектива со времен мисс Марпл.
Кинси понимает: разгадку случившегося надо искать в самом центре змеиного гнезда интриг, обманов и страстей, скрытого за благополучным фасадом городка...

Красавица Виолетта Сачливан отправилась полюбоваться фейерверками - и исчезла.
По маленькому городу поползли слухи...
Миссис Салливан сбежала с любовником?!
Ее изнасиловали…

In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the voice of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs. The true horror of the novel builds with excruciating tension as the reader foresees the awfulness that lies ahead. The suspense lies in whether Millhone will realize what is happening in time to intervene. Though set in the late eighties, T is for Trespass could not be more topical: identity theft; elder abuse; betrayal of trust; the breakdown in the institutions charged with caring for the weak and the dependent. It reveals a terrifying but all-too-real rip in the social fabric. Once again, Grafton opens up new territory with startling results.

In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the…