2006: #11 – L is for Lawless (Sue Grafton)

2006: #11 – L is for Lawless (Sue Grafton)L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton
Series: Kinsey Millhone #12
Published by St. Martin's Paperbacks on November 3rd 2009
Genres: mystery, private investigator
Pages: 352
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Also by this author: D is for Deadbeat, E is for Evidence, F is for Fugitive, G is for Gumshoe, H is for Homicide
Also in this series: D is for Deadbeat, E is for Evidence, F is for Fugitive, G is for Gumshoe, H is for Homicide

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.…

Book #11 was L is for Lawless, the 12th book in Sue Grafton’s Alphabet/Kinsey Millhone series.

Better than the last one.

Book count: 11
Pages in book: 322
Page count: 4,801
Words in book: 93,032
Word count:1,191,055

1,000,000 words surpassed — 2/2/06