Liza Ross

Michael and Pauline seem like the perfect couple - he was smitten the first time he saw her in Baltimore. In the heat of the moment, in World War II, they were hastily wed. But perhaps they should never have married.

Ohio, 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled in the Black Swamp, planting apple trees to claim the land as their own. Fifteen years later their youngest son, Robert, is drifting through Goldrush California, haunted by the broken family he fled years earlier.. But the past is never really past, and one day Robert is forced to confront the brutal reason he left behind everything he loved.

A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks routine but business is slow, so P.I. Kinsey Millhone takes the case. But the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get, and a double murder turns the case sinister. Kinsey discovers that nothing, except danger, is quite what it seems.

Private eye V I Warshawski goes out one night to Chicago's edgiest night spot, where a woman known as the Body Artist turns her naked body into a canvas for the audience to paint on. When a painter is shot, the police think it's a clear-cut case: a shell-shocked war veteran goes off the rails. But the soldier's family hires Warshawski to clear his name, and she soon uncovers a chain of ugly truths that stretches all the way from Iraq to Chicago's South Side. .  Book 14 of series.

When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.  Book 15 of series.

Courtney Stone has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen’s England. Then one evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating on pizza and Absolut vodka, Courtney wakes up in 19th century England in the body and bed of a girl called Jane Mansfield ... A laugh-out-loud romp with a Regency heart.

Private Eye V.I. Warshawski is roused one morning by an SOS from a woman on a farm south of Chicago. When V.I. gets there, she finds no woman - but a dead man in a cornfield, his body savagely mutilated.V.I. is happy to leave the case to the local sheriff: it looks like a falling out among meth dealers. But back in Chicago, she learns that the missing woman is a protégée of her oldest friend and confidante, Dr Lotty Herschel, and is compelled to investigate. What V.I. uncovers pulls her into a world of nuclear secrets and high-stakes computing, with roots reaching back to the Second World War. The detective soon finds herself in a hall of mirrors where she can't tell reality from video games, and her life is on the line. For V.I., this is her most profound, and terrifying, adventure yet . . ..  Book 16 of series.

It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn’t made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped...

Seventeen years ago Jean Timberlake's body was found at the foot of the sea wall. At the time, Bailey Fowler, an ex-boyfriend, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Now he's changed his tune. Kinsey Millhone is called in to solve the case - but then she stumbles on the dark secrets of a family's buried past...

When Irene Gersh asks P I Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn't heard from in six months, it's not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. It should be easy money - or so she thinks, but before it's over, she'll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come face-to-face with her own mortality. . . .

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and a people forever changed. Above all, it is the story of beautiful, ruthless Scarlett O'Hara and the dashing soldier of fortune, Rhett Butler.

After a three-week-long investigation, Kinsey couldn’t wait to get home. What she needed most was a few quiet days by herself – but two things happened to change all her plans. First she ran into a murder case. Then Kinsey met Bibianna Diaz, and before the night was over they were sharing a prison cell . . .

When V.I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she thought would be futile turns lethal. With deception and corruption following her at every step, V.I. finds all her certainties under threat, but takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.  Book 13 of series.

When Kinsey Millhone first got involved in the Isabelle Barney murder case, she was out of work. Attorney Lonnie Klingman’s usual private investigator had just dropped dead of a heart attack and Kinsey was more than happy to oblige. The trouble started on the very first day of the investigation. Either Kinsey’s predecessor was incompetent – or someone had been getting away with murder. And next time it might turn out to be hers . . .

Nothing much happened in the village of Marten-de-Provence, until Rafaella Marten decided that it was time to bring youth and energy back to the Chateau des Roses Sauvages. She invites far flung family and friends to a re-union, and the sleepy French village is soon alive with more romance and danger than Rafaella ever dreamed of.

When Wendell Jaffe's thirty-five-foot Fuji ketch was found drifting off the Baja coast, it seemed a sure thing he'd gone overboard. After a five-year wait, his Jaffe's widow had finally succeeded in having the estate swindler declared dead, collecting half a million dollars for her pains. Now it looks more like a "pseudocide" and private investigator, Kinsey Millhone is ready to risk everything to get to the truth...

Lorna Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. She had also been found dead in mysterious circumstances and her death pulls Kinsey Mullhone into a netherworld of deception, betrayal and unavenged murder.

Kinsey Malone is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who quite literally take her for the ride of her life. Kinsey's on a plane to Dallas, at the start of a thrilling rollercoaster ride through Texas and Kentucky on the trail of long-buried treasure. Unfortunately there's a fire-raising psychopath on her tail . . . And she's going to be late for a very important wedding . . .

Marnie FitzPatrick is a reclusive sixth-former with a dysfunctional family, and Julie Crewe is a disillusioned maths teacher who lives vicariously through the girls she teaches. This is the story of summer 1967, when the sun burned down on the roof of the Shredded Wheat factory, and a boy called Freddie danced to the records he had stolen. This is what happens when three people are bound together by something that can't be explained by any equation.

'M' is for Malek Construction, the company that grew to become one of the biggest in California construction. The four sons stand to inherit a fortune - four men with very different outlooks, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them went missing. 'M' is for Millhone, hired to trace that missing black sheep brother. And in brutal consequence, 'M' is for malice . . . and malice kills.

The day 28-year-old Willie Upton returns to her hometown of Templeton, New York, in disgrace is the day an enormous monster surfaces in Lake Glimmerglass. So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel of mystery, obsession, passion and revenge spanning two centuries.

A well-published author who has married several times, Kate has lived a life full of exploration. Now, as she begins to feel time creeping up on her, she wants to find a new sense of meaning.

Kinsey's never been one for personal possessions, but curiosity wins out when she finds, amid some recovered childhood memorabilia, an old undelivered letter. It will force her to re-examine her beliefs about the break-up of her first marriage, about the honour of her first husband, about an old unsolved murder. And it will put her life in the gravest peril...

In this collection of eight short stories, nearly all set in a small Canadian town, Munro examines her seemingly mundane characters’ varied lives and hidden passions.

On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they find a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she vanishes before anyone can discover her identity.

As V.I. attempts to find her, the detective uncovers an ugly consortium of Chicago power brokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl before VI can save her. And soon it becomes clear that V.I.'s own life is in jeopardy as well.  Book 21 of series.

Dr Dowan Purcell has been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey Malone is asked to investigate his disappearance. With no known enemies and a happy family life, the police are baffled. But it was his ex-wife Fiona who called in Kinsey, and despite her instinct to refuse, she takes the case on - a decision she would live to regret....

In the summer of 1969, the decomposed corpse of a young female was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1 Despite months of investigation, she remained unidentified and the case unsolved. Now, 18 years later, Kinsey Milhone is on a quest to identify the girl. But what Kinsey does not expect is that reopening an old case will incite the killer to strike again - not just once, but twice.

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 Kinsey is soon fighting to prevent Reba Lafferty from breaking the conditions of her parole. As she finds herself embroiled in a cunning challenge of wits, Kinsey must try to control the bitter, angry Reba as she launches a dangerous revenge...

Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. Some said she'd run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for Daisy, the seven-year-old daughter she left behind, Violet's absence has never been explained or forgotten. Now Daisy wants the solace of closure and she hopes that Kinsey Millhone will be the one to bring that about.

When Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbour Gus has an accident, his niece organises a nurse for him. Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn’t turn up anything suspicious. But Kinsey’s not convinced - especially when Gus seems to be getting worse. Realising that she isn’t going to get past the front door, Kinsey turns to more unorthodox methods to step up her investigation. And gets far more than she bargained for.

In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned. When the case is reopened after twenty years, Michael Sutton contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone claiming to have recalled a disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery - he may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh's body. And while stepping back into the past, Kinsey discovers more about her own history too . . .

Evan Hughes, Emma's American great-grandaughter, is trying to integrate into the powerful Harte family. She is caught between her estranged parents, her new family, and new love. Meanwhile a dangerous enemy hovers in the background. 

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself assisting to apprehend a shoplifter, Audrey Vance. Later, when Audrey's body is discovered in a local suicide spot, unable to believe she took her own life, Audrey's fiancé hires Kinsey to investigate. As Kinsey's enquiries reach a dramatic head, she reveals a big story behind a small crime, and a brutal killer without a conscience...

Two dead bodies: the first a local PI - gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa; the other on the beach six weeks later. There's no identification, except a slip of paper with PI Kinsey Millhone's name and number in his trouser pocket. Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes. But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange links begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey finds the key to his identity...

In 1873, three Norwegian women were brutally attacked on a small bleak island off the coast of New Hampshire. More than a century later, Jean, a photojournalist, travels to the island on a research assignment to investigate the murder. As she immerses herself in a tale of love and loss, the ancient story begins to affect her behaviour, driving her to wild, impulsive action - with irreversible consequences.

P I Kinsey Millhone is helping the widow of her old friend, Pete Wolinsky, with her IRS audit. This seemingly innocuous task takes a treacherous turn when Kinsey finds a coded list. It soon leads her to an unhinged man with a catalogue of ruined lives left in his wake. As Kinsey delves deeper into the investigation she quickly becomes the next target of this tormentor. But can Kinsey prove her case against him before she becomes the next victim