Judy Kaye

Y begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a 14-year-old classmate - and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing, and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence, and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now it's 1989, and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released...

California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates 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, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.

Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. There were lots of rumors regarding her disappearance, but now 34 years later, her daughter who was not quite seven years old when her mother disappeared, wants closure.

A mystery novel featuring wise-cracking female private investigator, Kinsey Millhone. Kinsey has been hired to stop a killing, but the murderer of Bobby Callahan didn't care and the least Kinsey could do was to find his killer.

In "D" is for deadbeat, Kinsey is hired to deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid but discovers that the person who hired her is a phony who shows up dead when she tries to collect her fee. -- In "E" is for evidence, Kinsey is investigating a routine insurance claim that turns into non-routine trouble. -- In "F" is for fugitive, Kinsey is asked to find an escaped murderer for his father.

Sue Grafton ups the ante for private investigator Kinsey Millhone like never before in this “taut, terrifying, transfixing”* #1 New York Times bestselling mystery in the Alphabet series.
Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term “Grumpy Gus.” A miser and a hoarder, Gus is so crotchety that after he takes a bad fall, his only living relative...

Kinsey Millhone trusts her life to her instincts as her investigation into the disappearance of a renowned physician takes her into a dark and dangerous world of duplicity, betrayal, and double-dealing.

Private detective Kinsey Milhone finds her past coming back to haunt her when an encounter with her first husband and a mysterious undelivered letter discovered among her childhood memorabilia reveal new information about an old unsolved murder.