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W Is for Wasted : A Kinsey Millhone Novel

W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)

Grafton, Sue

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA)

G.P. Putnam's Sons, the Penguin Group

Putnam Publishing Group, The

Marian Wood Books/Putnam

Penguin Publishing Group

Boulevard Books

Penguin Random House LLC, New York, New York, 2013

Kinsey Millhone Mystery, New York, New York, 2013

Kinsey Millhone mysteries, New York State, 2013

Kinsey Millhone mysteries, 23, New York, 2013

United States, United States of America

1st Edition, First Edition, FR, 2013

First Edition, 1st Printing, 2013

"A Marian Wood book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages [485]-486).

Of The #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone Series, Npr Said, Makes Me Wish There Were More Than 26 Letters. Two Dead Bodies Changed The Course Of My Life That Fall. One Of Them I Knew And The Other I'd Never Laid Eyes On Until I Saw Him In The Morgue. The First Was A Local Pi Of Suspect Reputation. He'd Been Gunned Down Near The Beach At Santa Teresa. It Looked Like A Robbery Gone Bad. The Other Was On The Beach Six Weeks Later. He'd Been Sleeping Rough. Probably Homeless. No Identification. A Slip Of Paper With Millhone's Name And Number Was In His Pants Pocket. The Coroner Asked Her To Come To The Morgue To See If She Could Id Him. Two Seemingly Unrelated Deaths, One A Murder, The Other Apparently Of Natural Causes. But As Kinsey Digs Deeper Into The Mystery Of The John Doe, Some Very Strange Linkages Begin To Emerge. And Before Long At Least One Aspect Is Solved As Kinsey Literally Finds The Key To His Identity. And Just Like That, She Says, The Lid To Pandora's Box Flew Open. It Would Take Me Another Day Before I Understood How Many Imps Had Been Freed, But For The Moment, I Was Inordinately Pleased With Myself. In This Multilayered Tale, The Surfaces Seem Clear, But The Underpinnings Are Full Of Betrayals, Misunderstandings, And Outright Murderous Fraud. And Kinsey, Through No Fault Of Her Own, Is Thoroughly Compromised. W Is For. Wanderer. Worthless. Wronged. W Is For Wasted-- A Novel In Sue Grafton's Bestselling Alphabet Series Featuring Kinsey Milhone / Sue Grafton. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [485]-486).

"Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, 'Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters.' Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him. Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes. But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange linkages begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey literally finds the key to his identity. 'And just like that, ' she says, 'the lid to Pandora's box flew open. It would take me another day before I understood how many imps had been freed, but for the moment, I was inordinately pleased with myself.' In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised. W is for. wanderer. worthless. wronged. W is for wasted"-- Provided by publisher

Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other Id never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.
The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. Hed been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. Hed been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhones name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him.
Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes.
But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange linkages begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey literally finds the key to his identity. And just like that, she says, the lid to Pandoras box flew open. It would take me another day before I understood how many imps had been freed, but for the moment, I was inordinately pleased with myself.
In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised.
W is for . . . wanderer . . . worthless . . . wronged . . .
W is for wasted.

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds shocking connections between two seemingly unrelated deaths in this #1 New York Times bestselling mystery in the Alphabet series.The first victim is a local PI of suspect reputation, gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. The second is a John Doe found on the beach six weeks later with a slip of paper with private detective Kinsey Millhone's name and number in his pocket. Two seemingly unrelated deaths: one man murdered, the other apparently dead of natural causes.But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange links begin to emerge. Not just between the two victims, but also to Kinsey's past. And before long Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised...

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