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I. ``A`` Is for Alibi ``B`` Is for Burglar ``C`` Is for Corpse ``D`` Is for Deadbeat ``E`` Is for Evidence ``F`` Is for Fugitive ``G`` Is for Gumshoe ``H`` Is for Homicide ``I`` Is for Innocent ``J`` Is for Judgment ``K`` Is for Killer ``L`` is for Lawless ``M`` Is for Malice ``N`` Is for Noose ``O`` Is for Outlaw ``P`` Is for Peril ``Q`` Is for Quarry ``R`` Is for Ricochet ``S`` Is for Silence ``T`` Is for Trespass ``U`` Is for Undertow ``V`` Is for Vengeance ``W`` Is for Wasted ``X``.
She couldn\'t know then it would lead her to probe the passions buried just below the surface of family relations, where old wounds fester and the most cherished emotions become warped until they fuse into deadly, soul-destroying time bombs.
For Kinsey Millhone, the case was a long shot, but she agreed to take it on.
For Royce Fowler, old and sick with not much time left, his son\'s reappearance was the chance to heal an old wound.
And a case seventeen years dead came murderously to life again.
And then, by sheer fluke, the cops stumbled on Bailey Fowler. ``Like mother, like daughter,`` some said--though never within hearing of Shana Timberlake, who, whatever her faults, still mourned her murdered child.
After all, everyone knew Jean had been a wild kid.
They weren\'t even unduly concerned when, a year after the murder, Fowler walked away from the men\'s prison at San Luis Obispo, never to be seen again.
The people of floral Beach didn\'t pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been properly processed and convicted.
It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found.
F is for Fugitive Floral Beach wasn\'t much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. . .
Kinsey Millhone wonders just how private her investigation can be . #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton crafts a thriller set in a town so small that P.
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