N Is for Noose: A Kinsey Millhone Novel - Paperback

by Sue Grafton (Author)

The New York Times #1 Bestselling Series

"SMART AND SASSY" (New York Times) P.I. Kinsey Millhone is at it again in "N" is for Noose--another thrilling adventure from the award winning author who introduced detective Kinsey Millhone--and a hot new attitude--to crime fiction...

"Exceptionally entertaining...an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice."--San Francisco Chronicle

N IS FOR NEWQUIST
Tom Newquist has died. A detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office, Tom was tough, honest, and respected by all. He was also a heavy drinker and a workaholic, much to his wife Selma's distress. And now that Tom is gone, Selma can't help but wonder what it really was that was troubling him....

N IS FOR NIGHT PROWLER
What made Tom so restless during the last six weeks of his life? Why was he up all night and brooding all day long? What--or who--was at the heart of his dark moods? With the coroner's report in hand, Selma decides to enlist the help of Kinsey Millhone to find the truth about what happened to her husband.

N IS FOR NOOSE
But the residents of Nota Lake keep their secrets close--and their enemies closer. And the deeper Kinsey's investigation goes, the closer she comes to confronting the most dangerous outcome of all: the truth...

Back Jacket

"SMART AND SASSY" ("New York Times)" P.I. Kinsey Millhone is at it again in yet another thrilling adventure from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author

Sue Grafton

N is for NEVER AGAIN...

Tom Newquist has died. A detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office, Tom was tough, honest, and respected by all. He was also a heavy drinker and a workaholic, much to his wife Selma's distress. And now that Tom is gone, Selma can't help but wonder what it really was that was troubling him....

N is for NO MERCY...

What made Tom so restless during the last six weeks of his life? Why was he up all night and brooding all day long? What--or who--was at the heart of his dark moods? With the coroner's report in hand, Selma decides to enlist the help of Kinsey Millhone to find the truth about what happened to her husband.

"N is for NOOSE"

But the residents of Nota Lake keep their secrets close--and their enemies closer. And the deeper Kinsey's investigation goes, the closer she comes to confronting the most dangerous outcome of all: the truth...

"There are few writers able to sustain this solid mixture of detection, narrative energy, and cultural observation."--"The Washington Post"

Author Biography

The New York Times #1 bestselling author Sue Grafton (1940-2017) entered the mystery field in 1982 with the publication of 'A' Is for Alibi, which introduced female hard-boiled private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, operating out of the fictional town of Santa Teresa, (aka Santa Barbara) California, and launched the bestselling Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries. In addition to her books, she'd published several Kinsey Millhone short stories, and with her husband, Steven Humphrey, wrote numerous movies for television, including "A Killer in the Family" (starring Robert Mitchum), "Love on the Run" (starring Alec Baldwin and Stephanie Zimbalist) and two Agatha Christie adaptations, "Sparkling Cyanide" and "Caribbean Mystery," which starred Helen Hayes. Grafton is published in 28 countries and in 26 languages.