Books like N is for Noose (Kinsey Millhone, #14) by Sue Grafton
During early spring in the Sierra Nevada, PI Kinsey Millhone is en route west when she stops in Nota Lake to take on a new client. The town’s sheriff, Tom Newquist, has just died of a heart attack, leaving his widow desperate for answers. She believes her husband was hiding something before he passed and hires Kinsey to investigate.
As Millhone digs deeper, she finds that Newquist’s public life was exemplary, yet the town’s residents, especially the local rednecks, are tight‑knit and wary of outsiders. Facing growing pressure and silence, she feels ready to abandon the case—until a child’s drawing of a rope fashioned into a hangman’s noose comes to her attention.
This new clue throws the mystery into a darker, more personal light, forcing Kinsey to confront the hidden undercurrents of small‑town life and the secrets that bind it together.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Sue Grafton
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