W IS FOR WASTED by Sue Grafton - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
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Two
dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew
and the other I’d never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.
The first was a local PI of
suspect reputation. He’d been gunned down near the beach at Santa
Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach
six weeks later. He’d been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No
identification. A slip of paper with Millhone’s name and number was in
his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if
she could ID him.
Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes.
But as Kinsey digs deeper into
the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange linkages begin to emerge.
And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey literally finds
the key to his identity. “And just like that,” she says, “the lid to
Pandora’s box flew open. It would take me another day before I
understood how many imps had been freed, but for the moment, I was
inordinately pleased with myself.”
In this multilayered tale, the
surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals,
misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no
fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised.
W is for . . . wanderer . . . worthless . . . wronged . . .
W is for wasted.
