num_pages: 322
description: Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriffs office --- a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the town folk were sad but not surprised. Just shy of sixty-five. Newquist worked too hard, drank too much, and exercised too little.Newquist's widow, Selma, didn't doubt the coroner's report. But still, she couldn't help wondering what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life. What was it that had made him prowl restlessly at night and brood constantly? Determined to help Selma find the answer, Kinsey Millhone sets up shop in Nota Lake, where she finds that looking for a needle in a haystack can draw blood --- very likely, her own ...
language: English
title: N Is For Noose
titlecomplete: N Is For Noose (Kinsey Millhone, #14)
characters: Phyllis Newquist, Kinsey Millhone, Officer Corbet, Dave Estes, Pinkie Ritter, Aunt Gin, Robert Dietz, Rafer LaMott, Carey Badger, Alice (N is for Noose), Clay Boyd, Cecilia Boden, Florence Nightingale (Kickback), Brant Newquist, Margaret Brine, Lonnie Kingman, Macon Newquist, Nancy (N is for Noose), Alfie Toth, James Tennyson, Sonny Gelson, John Philip Sousa (N is for Noose), Selma Newquist, Tom Newquist, Barbie (N is for Noose), Jonah Robb, Little Red Riding Hood (The Sunset Detective Goes to London), William Kirchner III, Hatch Brine and Wayne, Rosie (A is for Alibi), Bob Staffer, Colleen Sellers, Henry Pitts, Dr. Yee
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 35815
places: Carson City, Nevada, Santa Teresa, California, Nota Lake, California
series: Kinsey Millhone
publisher: Fawcett