Kinsey Millhone Books In Order (Full List)

It only became sinister when Millhone learned that just days before Elaine Boldt went missing, her next-door neighbor and bridge partner had been murdered, and the killer was still at large.

She confesses to having accidentally shot her husband, a well-known architect named Dwight Costigan, during a supposed struggle with an intruder at their home years prior.

Female, single and self-employed, with a constitutional inability to work for anyone else. Inconsistency has never troubled me..."* It was late October, the day before Halloween.

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.

Bailey Fowler, a long-time fugitive convicted of the murder of seventeen-year-old Jean Timberlake, has been captured. Kinsey Millhone to prove Bailey's innocence, Kinsey heads to Floral Beach, California.

First, Kinsey's car is run off the road, and then days later, she's almost shot, setting in motion a cat and mouse game… So Kinsey decides to hire a bodyguard.

First she ran into a murder case. What she needed most was a few quiet days by herself - but two things happened to change her plans.

Kinsey Millhone is hired onto the Isabelle Barney murder and begins to suspect someone has been getting away with it.

Before Kinsey can prove his identity, they vanish. That same day, Brian is arrested in the middle of a botched escape attempt, but is just as suddenly released on a technicality.

Only Lorna's mother kept it alive, consumed by the certainty that somebody out there had gotten away with murder. In answering that knock, Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the netherworld of unavenged murder.

Gilbert, a violent psychopath, goes after Ray, Kinsey and Laura Huckaby (Ray's daughter and Gilbert's common-law wife) from Santa Teresa to Dallas, TX to Louisville, KY.

Eighteen years ago, one of them – angry, troubled and in trouble – went missing. M is for Millhone, now hired to trace that missing black sheep brother.

Investigator Kinsey Millhone takes on the job of finding the truth about the suspicious death of the sheriff in Nota Lake, California.

PI Kinsey Millhone of California learns an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.

It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without a trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his collegues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away - never to be seen again.

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 after months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved.

Embroiled in a cunning challenge of wits, and meanwhile bemused by her own blossoming romance, Kinsey has to try to control the bitter, angry Reba as she launches her dangerous revenge.

Thirty-four years after Violet Sullivan's unexplained disappearance, Daisy--the not--seven-year-old daughter she left behind--enlists the assistance of private detective Kinsey Millhone to help her find the truth.

Sociopath Solana Rojas uses a stolen identity as a private caregiver to gain access to her intended victims while endeavoring to outmaneuver private investigator Kinsey Millhone.

It's way more than a long shot, but he's persistent and willing to pay cash up front.

California PI Kinsey Millhone checks the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer.

He'd been shot near the beach at Santa Teresa, and two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes.

The book starts off in third-person narrative by a woman called Teddy Xanakis. Teddy is in the throes of a bitter divorce and trying to ruin her ex-husband Ari.

When the tape goes missing, the suspected thief, a classmate, is murdered. McCabe's parents receive a copy of the attack that was filmed, along with a ransom demand.