V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone, Book 22) by Sue Grafton
By Sue Grafton
A spiderweb of risky relationships lies on the center of V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton's bold new Kinsey Millhone novel.
A girl with a murky earlier who kills herself-or was once it homicide? A spoiled child awash in playing debt who thinks he can beat the procedure. a beautiful lady whose lifestyles is ready to splinter right into a thousand fragments. a certified shoplifting ring operating for the Mob, racking up thousands from stolen items. A wandering husband, wealthy and ruthless. a grimy cop so entrenched at the strength he's proof against publicity. A sinister gangster, conscienceless and brutal. A lonely widower mourning the dying of his lover, determined for solutions, that may be worse than the ache of his loss. a personal detective, Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth-birthday reward is a punch within the face that leaves her with black eyes and a busted nose.
And a chic and strong businessman whose dealings are certainly outdoor the legislations: the magus on the middle of the web.
V: sufferer. Violence. Vengeance.
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