As she delves into the files and lives of the people involved, Kinsey is met with deceit, deception, misdirection, and hostility. Kinsey decides to take the case because she truly believes that Nikki is not guilty and that there is a murderer who got away with murder not once, but twice. The coincidence is too much to miss, but rather than appearing to clear Nikki of her husband's murder, Detective Dolan believes that Nikki is guilty of not one but two murders. Not only was Laurence Fife killed with powdered oleander, but a young twenty-four-year-old accountant in West Los Angeles died four days later of the same poison. After visiting her old friend, Con Dolan, at the police station where she is able to review the case files, Kinsey discovers that there was something more after all to the case. Kinsey is not entirely sure she wants the case, but agrees to look into it a little bit to see if there is anything that did not come out at the trial. Nikki Fife claims to be innocent of the crime and says she waited until she was released from prison so that she could find someone who would really help her to find the true killer of her husband.

Ĭontinue the Alphabet series with another gripping investigation in B is for Burglar.The murder Kinsey Millhone is asked to solve is eight years old, and Kinsey is doubtful that there is anything further to add to the case, but agrees to look into it as it is unlikely for a recently released prisoner on parole would ask to have things stirred up if she were really the guilty party. But the trail has gone cold and there is a chilling twist even Kinsey didn't expect. The Jury thought so too.Įight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her husband. With motive, access and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had reason to want him dead. A slick divorce attorney with a reputation for ruthlessness, Fife was also rumoured to be a slippery ladies' man. When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. The day before yesterday I killed someone and the fact weighs heavily on my mind. I'm thirty-two years old, twice divorced, no kids. I'm a private investigator, licensed by the state of California. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A is for Alibi is the first in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

A is for alibi