P is for Peril

Zusatztext Grafton is a delight to read, her books being highly literature, with believable plots and three-dimensionally drawn characters. Informationen zum Autor Sue Grafton was one of the most popular female writers, both in the UK and in the US. Born in Kentucky in 1940, she began her career as a TV scriptwriter before Kinsey Millhone and the 'alphabet' series took off. Two of the novels B is for Burglar and C is for Corpse won the first Anthony Awards for Best Novel. Sue lived and wrote in Montecito, California and Louisville, Kentucky. Klappentext P is for Peril is the sixteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away - never to be seen again. His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal - a former stripper forty years his junior - is just as sure he is dead. Enter private investigator Kinsey Malone, hired by Fiona to find out just what has happened to the man they loved. Enter also Tommy Hevener, an attractive flame-haired twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey. And Tommy is a man with a very interesting past . . . "Grafton has moved the private-eye story closer to real life than did either Hammett or Chandler." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review" The alphabet mysteries continue with an curious case for private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Zusammenfassung The alphabet mysteries continue with an curious case for private investigator Kinsey Millhone.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Grafton, Grafton Sue
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.10.2012
• EAN: 9781447212379
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-1237-9
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 199 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series; Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, California, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Crime and mystery fiction, C 1980 To C 1990