My very first crime fiction book was a Kinsey Millhone story, and I found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from a crime avoider to a crime lover! Since that first story, I have been committed to the alphabet mysteries, so it I felt both excited and a little sad to be holding the penultimate story in the series in my hands! Set in the 1980's in a fictional town, Santa Teresa in California, Kinsey is a female private detective. She lives alone, and is incredibly self-sufficient and smart, uncovering mysteries through dedicated hard work.