tani reviewed on 8/5/2005

Helpful Score: 1

Eighteen years ago, the bound and decomposed body of a young white female was found near a quarry off California's Highway 1, but the case was never solved. Now, the two men who found the body are nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement and want one last shot at the case. Being old and ill, they hire Kinsey Millhone, a woman private eye, to do the legwork for them. They would be happy even just to identify the victim, but the search turns out to be dangerous.

This is one book in the alphabetically-titled series featuring Millhone. She is smart, independent, tough, yet vulnerable, and funny. I like to imagine her as a younger version of the author, whose picture is on the dust jacket of this book.

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