Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
Get ready for one of Kinsey Millhone's "wildest adventures yet" (San Francisco Examiner) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton

L is for LIES...
When Kinsey Millhone's landlord asks her to help deceased World War II vet Johnnie Lee's family find out why the military has no record of his service, she thinks it'll be a cinch. But she is about to meet her match in world-class prevaricators who take her for the ride of her life.

L is for LARCENY...
When Lee's apartment in burgled and a man named Ray Rawson, who claims to be an old friend of Lee's, is beaten up, Kinsey soon finds herself on the trail of a pregnant woman with a duffel bag. Soon the intrepid P.I. is following leads halfway across the country and encountering another man from Lee's past -- a vengeful psychopath.

L is for LAWLESS
Stalked by a new enemy and increasingly suspicious of Rawson -- not to mention running out of time and money -- now Kinsey must steer a collision course to solve a decades-old mystery that some would like better left unsolved...

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless. A Kinsey Millhone Novel. St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN: 9781250041883 (February, 2014), 343 p., $14.99.

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
The twelfth novel in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, now with a stunning new look
It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee, the World War II fighter pilot of whom, rather mysteriously, the military authorities have no record. His family are concerned - perhaps Kinsey could make a few calls, straighten things out?

Then Johnny's apartment is ransacked. In the debris a hidden safe is uncovered - and in that safe is a mysterious key marked LAWLESS.

That night Kinsey's on a plane to Dallas, at the start of a thrilling rollercoaster ride through Texas and Kentucky on the trail of long-buried treasure. Unfortunately there's a fire-raising psychopath on her tail...

And she's going to be late for a very important wedding...

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery. Pan, ISBN: 9781447212331 (August, 2012), 348 p., £7.99.

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
When Kinsey Millhone's landlord asks her to help deceased World War II vet Johnnie Lee's family find out why the military has no record of his service, she thinks it'll be a cinch. But she is about to meet her match in world-class prevaricators who take her for the ride of her life.

When Lee's apartment in burgled and a man named Ray Rawson, who claims to be an old friend of Lee's, is beaten up, Kinsey soon finds herself on the trail of a pregnant woman with a duffel bag. Soon the intrepid P.I. is following leads halfway across the country and encountering another man from Lee's past -- a vengeful psychopath.

Stalked by a new enemy and increasingly suspicious of Rawson -- not to mention running out of time and money -- now Kinsey must steer a collision course to solve a decades-old mystery that some would like better left unsolved...

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 9780312373139 (November, 2009), 343 p., $7.99.

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee, the World War II fighter pilot of whom, rather mysteriously, the military authorities have no record. His family are concerned - perhaps Kinsey could make a few calls, straighten things out?

Then Johnny's apartment is ransacked. In the debris a hidden safe is uncovered - and in that safe is a mysterious key marked LAWLESS.

And she's going to be late for a very important wedding...

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery. Pan, ISBN: 9780330334815 (June, 2008), 348 p., £6.99.

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
Henry Pitt, her long time landlord asks her to help a fellow neighbour find evidence that his grandfather served in the military during the Second World War. With such proof, the man can be decently buried, courtesy of the U.S. government. It seems such a simple thing, but with Kinsey, it rarely is. Before long she finds herself entangled with an eccentric and quarrelsome family as well as a long lost buddy who has turned up just in time to get himself beaten up in a robbery attempt of the alleged veteran's apartment. It seems there is a reason the Armed Services has no record of the dead man's service. Kinsey sets out to determine what he might have been doing instead of fighting against the Japanese and why someone might think his shabby apartment worth burgling.

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless. Pan, ISBN: 0330334816 (December, 1996), 304 p., £5.99.

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
When Kinsey Millhone agrees to do a favor for Henry Pitts, her lovable octogenarian landlord, she literally gets taken for the ride of her life. The family of a recently deceased WWII veteran wants her to find out why the military has no record of his service. All Kinsey has to do, she thinks, is cut through some government red tape. But when the dead man's house is ransacked and his old army buddy is beaten up, she quickly realizes he was not all he seemed. Before long Kinsey is trailing crooks halfway across the country, impersonating a hotel maid, tangling with a baseball bat-wielding grandmother, and running from one very dangerous character. With her money almost gone and her nerves frayed, Kinsey's got to solve a decades-old crime and make it back home in time for Henry's wedding... if she can make it back at all...

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless. Fawcett, ISBN: 0449221490 (July, 1996), 322 p., $7.99.

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
Kinsey's skills are about to be sorely tested. She is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who quite literally take her for the ride of her life.

"L" Is for Lawless: Call it Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call it the return of Kinsey as bad girl -- quick-witted and quicksilvery, smart-mouthed and smart-alecky -- poking her nose into everyone's dirty laundry as she joins up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in an Our Gang comedy that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with a major headache and an empty bank balance.

America's favorite borderline delinquent is back with her one-liners on tap and her energy level on high, romping through her fastest and funniest adventure in this, her twelfth foray into the alphabet of crime.

Sue Grafton: L is for Lawless. Henry Holt, ISBN: 0805019375 (September, 1995), 290 p., $21.95 (?).