num_pages: 289
description: Kinsey Millhone should have done something else--she should have turned the car in the direction of home. Instead, she was about to put herself in the gravest jeopardy of her career.Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office--a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, smoked too much, and exercised too little. That plus an appetite for junk food made him a poster boy for an American Heart Association campaign. Newquist's widow didn't doubt the coroner's report. But what Selma couldn't accept was not knowing what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life. What was it that had made him prowl restlessly at night, that had him brooding constantly? Selma Newquist wanted closure, and the only way she'd get it was if she found out what it was that had so bedeviled her husband. Kinsey should have dumped the case. It was vague and hopeless, like looking for a needle in a haystack. Instead, she set up shop in Nota Lake, where she found that looking for a needle in a haystack can draw blood. Very likely, her own."N" Is for Noose: a novel in which Kinsey Millhone becomes the target and an entire town seems in for the kill.
language: English
title: N is for Noose
titlecomplete: N is for Noose
characters: Dr. Yee, Kinsey Millhone, William Kirchner III, Carey Badger, Robert Dietz, Aunt Gin, Little Red Riding Hood (The Sunset Detective Goes to London), Tom Newquist, Officer Corbet, Florence Nightingale (Kickback), Rafer LaMott, Lonnie Kingman, Phyllis Newquist, Pinkie Ritter, Clay Boyd, Sonny Gelson, Dave Estes, Alfie Toth, Brant Newquist, Bob Staffer, Hatch Brine and Wayne, James Tennyson, Margaret Brine, Jonah Robb, Macon Newquist, Nancy (N is for Noose), Henry Pitts, Barbie (N is for Noose), Colleen Sellers, Alice (N is for Noose), John Philip Sousa (N is for Noose), Cecilia Boden, Rosie (A is for Alibi), Selma Newquist
genres: Suspense, Crime, Detective, Murder Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Audiobook, American, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 35824
places: Nota Lake, California, Carson City, Nevada, Santa Teresa, California
series: Kinsey Millhone
publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL