Career-driven accountant Natalie Collins wasn't the type to wish for a Hollywood hero to rescue her. She preferred life away from celebrity glitz. Too bad the man who drove her wild was an A-list actor. With her understated beauty and brains, Natalie was the one person Chase Booker could trust. He could see the strong, sexy woman beneath her shy exterior, and she stirred a blinding passion in him that made it easy to forget that they were from different worlds. But when she was in his arms, their worlds were dangerously close to colliding…

La detective Kinsey Millhone se aprestaba a ser dama de honor en la boda del hermano de su casero cuando, pocos días antes, acepta investigar para un vecino, Chester, por qué en los archivos militares ha desaparecido todo rastro de Johnny Lee, su padre recién fallecido y veterano de la segunda guerra mundial. ¡Adiós planes de boda!, porque, de pronto, alguien ha entrado en casa del difunto dejándolo todo patas arriba y Chester descubre, en una caja de caudales, una llave con esta misteriosa inscripción: LEY. A partir de entonces nadie es ya quien dice ser: ni Ray Rawson, el antiguo amigo del ejército, que quiere alquilar la casa; ni Gilbert Hays, a quien Kinsey sorprende llevándose una bolsa de la casa de Lee; ni Laura Huckaby, la mujer a quien aquél entrega la bolsa. A Kinsey no le queda más remedio que emprender una salvaje odisea en la que, para desenredar la madeja, acabará pasando por cualquier cosa, menos por detective…

Amazon.com Review Both new readers and old fans will welcome this 12th Kinsey Milhone adventure in the "A" is for Alibi series by Sue Grafton. In this case, Kinsey agrees to do a favor for a friend of a friend and gets herself into so much trouble that she promises at the outset never to do such a thing again without careful consideration. Henry Pitt, her longtime landlord asks her to help a fellow neighbor find evidence that his grandfather served in the military during the Second World War. With such proof, the man can be decently buried, courtesy of the U.S. government. It seems such a simple thing, but with Kinsey, it rarely is. Before long she finds herself entangled with an eccentric and quarrelsome family as well as a long lost buddy who has turned up just in time to get himself beaten up in a robbery attempt of the alleged veteran's apartment. It seems there is a reason the Armed Services have no record of the dead man's service. Kinsey sets out to determine what he might have been doing instead of fighting against the Japanese and why someone might think his shabby apartment worth a burgle. Typical of the series, the mystery is not the central point of the story, but rather a starting point for Kinsey to become embroiled in a suspenseful (and delightful) search-and-rescue operation, usually against her better judgement. In this case, a gun-toting, arthritic octogenarian and revelations of the inner workings of bargain-rate motels are all part of the adventure. This is an easy and enjoyable read, and a solid addition to Grafton's string of alphabetical hits

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