R is for Ricochet-------pan macmillan
The eighteenth novel in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, now with a stunning new look
Kinsey
Millhone, employed by Nord Lafferty to drive his daughter home from her
incarceration at the Californian Institute for Women, marvels at the
simplicity of the task. But Reba Lafferty emerges feisty and rebellious,
and Kinsey is soon fighting to prevent her charge from breaking the
conditions of her parole.
As she finds herself befriending the
ex-gambler, ex-alcoholic and ex-con, Kinsey discovers that Reba had
taken the fall for her boss, also her lover, when he conducted a
highly-crafted money laundering scam. Alan Beckwith has so far escaped
the clutches of the FBI. Now they believe he is laundering money for a
Columbian drug cartel - they just need the proof.
When Kinsey is
asked by the police to persuade Reba to unveil crucial evidence
guaranteed to put Beckwith behind bars, she doesn’t expect cooperation.
But when she hears of shocking new information about her lover, Reba is
suddenly all too eager to do everything she can to ruin him.
Embroiled
in a cunning challenge of wits, and meanwhile bemused by her own
blossoming romance, Kinsey must try to control the bitter, angry Reba as
she launches her dangerous revenge . . .