"O" is for outlaw

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Sue Grafton: "O" is for outlaw (1999, Henry Holt)

318 pages

English language

Published Sept. 8, 1999 by Henry Holt.

ISBN:
978-0-8050-5955-7
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.

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Kinsey, girl, one of the things I love about you is that you never change. You are still hanging out with Henry, running 3 miles a day, and taking risky chances. You say the wrong things and have no finesse. You are my fictional BFF.

This time we get a deep look at Kinsey's first marriage to Mickey Magruder. She was young, he was older, they were both cops, and it really sounded like a unhealthy relationship from start to finish. Not that Kinsey has a strong track record in that area, although I did like Dietz. But I digress. Anyway, Mickey has been shot. He's in a coma, and while he can't point the finger at anyone in that state, the cops come knocking on Kinsey's door because a gun registered to her was found at the scene. And that's all it takes to get Kinsey to stick her …

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Subjects

  • Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Women private investigators -- California -- Fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • California -- Fiction