Summary
Set in 1980s Santa Teresa, California, Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mystery series feature private investigator Kinsey Millhone, a strong-willed, independent, and unsentimental protagonist. In the thirteenth book of the series, the death of the Malek family patriarch opens up old wounds and raises many questions. The four Malek sons stand to inherit a fortune, but one of them has been missing for years. Hired to help find the missing brother, Kinsey sleuths out a deadly killer.