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Reba Lafferty, spoiled as a child with priviledges, gets out of jail for embezzlement at the age of 32. Her father is finally there for her and wants her to stay straight at home, so he hires someone to watch her. It seems like easy money, until one of Reba's old crowd comes circling around.

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Main Author: Grafton, Sue
Other Authors: Kaye, Judy
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House Audio, p2004.
Edition:Abridged.
Series:Grafton, Sue. Kinsey Millhone mysteries ; 18.
Subjects:
Ex-convicts > Fiction.
Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women private investigators > California > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > California.
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Summary:Reba Lafferty, spoiled as a child with priviledges, gets out of jail for embezzlement at the age of 32. Her father is finally there for her and wants her to stay straight at home, so he hires someone to watch her. It seems like easy money, until one of Reba's old crowd comes circling around.
Item Description:Compact discs.
Physical Description:5 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
ISBN:0739304216 :
Author Notes:Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky on April 24, 1940. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Louisville in 1961. Her first novel Keziah Dane was published in 1967. Her second novel, The Lolly-Madonna War, was published in 1969 and she adapted it into a screenplay. After that movie was released in 1973, she worked intermittently writing for television. A series she created, Nurse, ran for two seasons on CBS in the early 1980s.

Her writing career took off when A Is for Alibi was published in 1982 and received the Mysterious Stranger Award. This was the beginning of the Kinsey Millhone Mystery series. B Is for Burglar won the Shamus and Anthony Awards and C Is for Corpse won the Anthony Award. She also received the Cartier Diamond Dagger, the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Bouchercon, and the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. She died from cancer on December 28, 2017 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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