"H" is for HOMICIDE.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Tom Adams,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with capitalised gilt lettered author name and other b/w lettering (title etc),red spine/backstrip with gilt lettered author name and white lettered title and publisher,rear panel with yellow background and red+black lettered critics' reviews and some light and heavier scoring but without adversely affecting the board beneath.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges inevitably aged/toned but with minimal,light and sporadic blemishes; contents bright,tight,text body clean even with page-edge toning,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – possibly unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean endpapers,book has a slight lean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,.2-256pp [paginated] includes 23 chapters+Epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and author's thanks.
Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable,and even internally,the book is also in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.Despite them,it really is an acceptable copy for shelf display and for reading too. His name was Parnell Perkins,and until shortly after midnight,he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity.Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work.And to any other.Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity's offices.
To the cops,it looked like a robbery gone sour.To Kinsey Millhone,it looked like the cops were walking away from the case.She didn't like the idea that a colleague and sometime drinking companion had been murdered.Or the idea that his murderer was loose and on the prowl.It made her feel exposed.Vulnerable. Bibianna Diaz was afraid for her life.If there was one thing she knew for sure,it was that you didn't cross Raymond Maldonado and live to tell the tale.And Bibianna had well and truly crossed him,running out on his crazy wedding plans and going into hiding in Santa Teresa light years away from the Los Angeles barrio that was home turf to Raymond and his gang.Now she needed money to buy time,to make sure she'd put enough space between them.And the quickest way she knew to get money was to work an insurance scam - just like the ones Raymond was running down in L.A.The trouble was,Bibianna picked California Fidelity as her mark.And it wasn't long before her name surfaced in one of Parnell Perkins's open files and Kinsey was on her case.But so,too,was her spurned suitor,Raymond Maldonado.
He had a rap sheet as long as his arm,a hair-trigger temper that was best left untested,and an inability to take no for an answer.He also had Tourette's syndrome,which did nothing to smooth out the kinks in his erratic and often violent behavior.All in all,Raymond Maldonado was not someone to spend a lot of time hanging out with.Unfortunately for Kinsey,she didn't have a lot of choice in the matter.Not after the love-sick Raymond kidnapped Bibianna.Like it or not,Kinsey was stuck baby-sitting Bibianna along with Raymond and his macho crew.You might say she was a prisoner of love.
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