Sue Grafton

When Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor needs live-in care, a seemingly perfect nurse named Solana Rojas arrives to look after him. But Solana is not who she claims — she is a predator who steals identities and bleeds the vulnerable dry, and Kinsey is the only one who senses the danger before it's too late.

A wealthy family needs its long-lost black sheep found before a fortune can be divided. Kinsey Millhone traces Guy Malek — vanished eighteen years ago, now a gentle, born-again man — and reunites him with the brothers who never wanted him back. Then Guy is murdered, and the family's old wounds turn lethal.

A box of Kinsey Millhone's old belongings surfaces with a returned letter that overturns everything she believed about her first marriage. The husband she walked out on after he was accused of a brutal beating may have been innocent — and her own testimony wrong. When he's shot and left for dead, Kinsey must confront her past.

Eighteen years ago, the body of an unidentified young woman was found dumped near a quarry, her murder never solved and her name never known. Now two ailing retired detectives ask Kinsey Millhone to help them close the case that has haunted them — to give a forgotten Jane Doe back her name before they run out of time.

Eight years ago, divorce attorney Laurence Fife was poisoned, and his wife Nikki went to prison for it. Now released, Nikki hires private investigator Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed him — a cold case that will lead Kinsey to a second poisoning, an old web of betrayals, and the first kill of her own career.

Bobby Callahan barely survived the car crash that left him broken and partly amnesiac, but he's certain it wasn't an accident — someone tried to kill him, and he can't remember why. He hires Kinsey Millhone to find out. Then Bobby dies, and a case of attempted murder becomes a case of murder.

Kinsey Millhone is hired to find an elderly woman lost in the Mojave Desert — and learns, at the same time, that a man she once helped put away has placed a contract on her life. With a hit man closing in, Kinsey hires bodyguard Robert Dietz, and two cases collide as she races to stay alive.

Wendell Jaffe drowned himself five years ago, leaving behind a collapsed investment fraud and a paid-out life insurance policy. So why has someone just seen him alive in Mexico? Kinsey Millhone is hired to find out — a case that will lead her south of the border and, unexpectedly, to the discovery that she has a living family she never knew.

A grieving mother asks Kinsey Millhone to investigate her daughter's death, ruled undetermined but never explained. As Kinsey digs into Lorna Kepler's hidden life and works the small hours when the city's darker business is done, she's drawn into a nocturnal world — and toward a choice that tests her own moral code.

Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party dress, drove off on the Fourth of July, and was never seen again. Her daughter, only seven at the time, hires Kinsey Millhone to find out what happened. To solve it, Kinsey must reconstruct a vanished summer — and Grafton steps outside Kinsey's narration to show it unfolding.

In 1979, a group of privileged prep-school students filmed a sexual assault, then one of them was murdered. A decade later, the convicted killer is released and the old tape resurfaces as blackmail — and Kinsey Millhone is hired into the case. Meanwhile, the predator from her last investigation is still hunting her.

A simple job — find a woman's missing sister so a will can be settled — turns sinister when Kinsey Millhone realizes Elaine Boldt didn't just go to Florida for the winter. A trail of a burglary, an apartment fire, and a body leads Kinsey to suspect she's chasing not a missing person but a murder.

When $5,000 appears in her bank account, Kinsey Millhone realizes she's being framed — set up to look like she took a bribe in an arson investigation. To clear her name, she must turn detective on her own case, untangling a wealthy family's secrets and the personal enemy who engineered her downfall.

Seventeen years ago, Bailey Fowler was convicted of murdering Jean Timberlake in the small coastal town of Floral Beach — then he escaped. Recaptured at last, he swears he's innocent, and his dying father hires Kinsey Millhone to prove it. But Floral Beach has kept its secrets for a long time, and it does not want them dug up.

When a fellow investigator dies suddenly, Kinsey Millhone inherits his unfinished case: building the civil suit against David Barney, a man acquitted of murdering his wealthy wife six years ago. As Kinsey reconstructs the old crime, she must decide whether Barney is a killer who beat the system — or an innocent man twice accused.

A young man comes to Kinsey Millhone with a fragment of buried memory: as a six-year-old, he believes he saw two men digging a hole in the woods — perhaps burying a child kidnapped twenty-one years ago. The recollection is unreliable, the witness is suspect, but Kinsey can't let it go, and the past begins to surface.

Two dead men, seemingly unconnected: a sleazy private investigator Kinsey Millhone knew, shot in a parking lot, and a homeless man found dead on the beach with Kinsey's name and number in his pocket. As Kinsey untangles how they're linked, she discovers the homeless man was family — and that he left her a fortune.

A shady stranger hires Kinsey Millhone to deliver a $25,000 check to a teenage boy — a simple errand that turns out to be anything but. The client, John Daggett, is a drunk, a liar, and an ex-con responsible for deaths he never paid for, and when he turns up drowned, Kinsey is left to untangle who wanted him dead.

Investigating an insurance fraud that turns deadly, Kinsey Millhone finds herself drawn deep undercover into the world of staged-accident scams — and trapped in the orbit of a volatile, dangerous man whose jealousy could get her killed. To get out, she'll have to play a role and pray her cover holds.

A widow hires Kinsey Millhone to find out what was troubling her husband, a respected detective, in the weeks before he died. The job takes Kinsey to the small Sierra town of Nota Lake, where the questions she asks are not welcome — and where someone is willing to hurt her badly to keep the answers buried.

A respected doctor vanishes nine weeks before Kinsey Millhone is hired to find him, his nursing-home empire already under investigation for Medicare fraud. As Kinsey untangles his disappearance, a separate danger creeps in from a charming new acquaintance whose interest in her turns out to be anything but innocent.

A wealthy father hires Kinsey Millhone for a simple job: collect his wayward daughter Reba from prison and ease her back into respectable life. But Reba is wild, loyal to the wrong people, and tangled with a married money launderer — and Kinsey finds herself caught between minding her client and helping the woman she's come to like.

Kinsey Millhone reports a shoplifting team she spots in a department store — a small good deed with deadly consequences. When one of the women is soon found dead, an apparent suicide, her grieving fiancé hires Kinsey, and the trail leads into a sophisticated organized-theft operation run by people who do not forgive interference.

A devious divorcée cons Kinsey Millhone into helping locate an estranged son, the first thread in a web of deceit. Meanwhile, a dead colleague's files reveal a coded list — the record of a methodical killer who has murdered women for years without detection. The lone 'X' marks the series' darkest, most ruthless adversary.

A favor for a neighbor — sorting out a dead man's missing military records — pitches Kinsey Millhone into a madcap, cross-country chase after loot from a decades-old heist. Far from Santa Teresa and out of her depth, Kinsey trades detection for improvisation in the series' most caper-like, comic adventure.