M Is for Malice: A Kinsey Millhone Novel: 13 (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) - Softcover

Grafton, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250006481 ISBN 13: 9781250006486

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2011

Synopsis

"There are few writers able to sustain the solid mixture of detection, narrative energy and cultural observations that one finds in Grafton." -- "Washington Post Book World"
"M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands.
"M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune - four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them - angry, troubled, and in trouble - went missing.
"M" is for Millhone, hired to trace that missing black sheep brother.
"M" is for memories, none of them happy. The bitter memoirs of an embattled family. This prodigal son will find no welcome at his family's table. "M" is for malice.
And in brutal consequence, "M" is for murder, the all-too-common outcome of familiar hatreds.
"M" is for malice . . . and malice kills.

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Review:

"Exceptionally entertaining...an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice." --San Francisco Chronicle on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Millhone is an engaging detective-for-hire...P.I. Kinsey Millhone and her creator...are arguably the best of [the] distaff invaders of the hitherto sacrosanct turf of gumshoes." --The Buffalo News on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Once a fan reads one of Grafton's alphabetically titled detective novels, he or she will not rest until all the others are found." --Los Angeles Herald Examiner on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Millhone is a refreshingly strong and resourceful female private eye." --Library Journal on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Tough but compassionate...There is no one better than Kinsey Millhone." --Best Sellers on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"A woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious loner." --Newsweek on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Lord, how I like this Kinsey Millhone...The best detective fiction I have read in years." --The New York Times Book Review on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Smart, tough, and thorough...Kinsey Millhone is a pleasure." --The Bloomsbury Review on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Kinsey is one of the most persuasive of the new female operatives...She's refreshingly free of gender clichés. Grafton, who is a very witty writer, has also given her sleuth a nice sense of humor--and a set of Wonder Woman sheets to prove it." --Boston Herald on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"What grandpa used to call a class act." --Stanley Ellin on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Smart, sexual, likable and a very modern operator." --Dorothy Salisbury Davis on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Kinsey's got brains and a sense of humor." --Kirkus Reviews on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

Book Description:

'M' is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1250006481
• ISBN 13: 9781250006486
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384