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When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it`s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlake--a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boys--was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all this time, Bailey`s finally been captured. Believing in his son`s innocence, Bailey`s father wants Kinsey to find Jean`s real killer. But most of the residents in this tight-knit community are convinced Bailey strangled Jean. So why are they so reluctant to answer Kinsey`s questions? If there`s one thing Kinsey`s got plenty of it`s persistence. And that`s exactly what it`s going to take to crack the lid on this case. As Kinsey gets closer to solving Jean`s murder, the more dirty little secrets she uncovers in a town where everyone has something to hide--and a killer will kill again to keep the past buried...

2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Judy Kaye"One can only marvel at Grafton's seemingly endless stock of adventurous and inventive plots and hope that a finite alphabet won't limit her to just 26 mysteries."-BooklistHow do you prove the innocence of a man already found guilty of murder?That's the task Kinsey Millhone is faced with when she takes on the case of Bailey Fowler. These are the facts: Jean Timberlake, Bailey's girlfriend, was found dead on the sands of Floral Beach, California, seventeen years ago. Bailey, drug addict and convicted felon, with no good alibi, was sent to the slammer - even though he swore he didn't do it. After escaping less than a year before, he successfully disappeared until he was picked up on a fluke of mistaken identify. Can Kinsey prevent him from being sent back to prison by finding the real killer? And what kinds of deadly passions and murderous intentions will she stir up as she searches for the truth?"Sue Grafton has created perhaps the most likable female private eye in the business." --Boston Globe

My name is Kinsey Millhone. I’m thirty-two years old, twice married, no kids, currently unattached and likely to remain so given my disposition, which is cautious at best...Seventeen years had passed since Jean Timberlake’s body had been found at the foot of the sea wall.At the time, Bailey Fowler, an ex-boyfriend of hers, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Now he’d changed his tune.Kinsey Millhone was called in to solve the case – then she stumbled on the dark secrets of a family’s buried past...‘Kinsey Millhone is one of the most convincing private investigators in operation’ Independent‘An alphabet of prime puzzles’ Sunday Times‘Kinsey Millhone is up there with the giants of the private eye genre... exhilarating stuff’ Times Literary Supplement