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"A" Is for Alibi
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When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent
divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on
behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated
philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California
town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. Including, thought
the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access, and
opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. The jury thought so
too.
Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find
out who really killed her late husband.
A trail that is eight years cold. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter,
wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose
memory cannot be trusted. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively
loyal to a dead partner -- and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to an
ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely -- and still angry over Fife's betrayal of
her; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few
skills -- and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include
every turn until it finally twists back on itself with a killer cunning
enough to get away with murder.
Reviews
"Kinsey Millhone is smart, sexual, likable and a very modern operator. A pleasure to read." --Dorothy Salisbury Davis
"Grafton has created a woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious loner . . . smart, well paced, and very funny." --Newsweek
"The best new private eye." --The Detroit News
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