One of the sassiest， most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . G is for glorious， galloping read， and I can t wait for H .--Louise Bernikow， CosmopolitanGood and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment， gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself， and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty s hit list. It s the last that convinces Kinsey even she can t handle whoever s been hired to whack her， and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz， a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey s body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness， Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it s over， she ll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and， in the process， come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . . "Wit is the most versatile weapon in Sue Grafton s well-stocked arsenal， and she uses it with disarming precision. . . . Grafton excels in this milieu."--Newsweek"The story is complex; the body-count high; the sexual encounters feverish; and the villains chilling--in another can t-put-it-down outing for this talented author."--Kirkus Reviews