N is for Noose
Book 14 of Kinsey Millhone
Language: English
California Crime & Thriller Crime & mystery Detective Detective and mystery stories; American Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Hard-Boiled Millhone; Kinsey (Fictitious character) Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled Mystery & Detective - Series Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths Mystery fiction Political Private Investigators Suspense Women Sleuths Women detectives Women private investigators - California
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: Mar 29, 1999
Description:
SUMMARY: Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office--a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townfolk were sad but not surprised. Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, drank too much, and exercised too little.Newquist's widow, Selma, didn't doubt the coroner's report. But still, she couldn't help wondering what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life. What was it that had made him prowl restlessly at night and brood constantly? Determined to help Selma find the answer, Kinsey Millhone sets up shop in Nota Lake, where she finds that looking for a needle in a haystack can draw blood--very likely, her own. . . .