num_pages: 352
description: She's every lover's feisty girlfriend. She's every father's courageous daughter.She's every woman's tough, vulnerable, and spirited alter ego.She's Kinsey Millhone, familiar to millions of readers around the globe, and she's back in full stride in P is for Peril, her latest venture into the darker side of the human soul. Mordant, mocking, and deceptively low-key, hers is a voice we know we can trust, from a character we've come to love.Through fifteen novels, Sue Grafton has gone from strength to strength, never writing the same book twice. So it's no surprise that she has taken on new territory in her sixteenth, this time entering the world of noir. It's a world cast in shades of black amid shafts of steel and silver, a shadow land in which the mysterious disappearance of a prominent physician leads Kinsey into a danger-filled maze of duplicity and double-dealing as she taps into the intricacies of a cunning Medicare fraud.P is for Peril: the novel in which Millhone stakes her life on a thin thread of intuition because the facts glint elusively out of reach and only guesses offer any shot at the truth."Unlike many detective series, Grafton's seems only to get better each time out," wrote Entertainment Weekly, and P is for Peril is a case in point. Pushing herself, reaching further with each new book, Sue Grafton delivers every time.
language: English
title: P is for Peril
titlecomplete: P is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone, #16)
characters: Tommy and Richard Hevener, Kinsey Millhone, Mrs. Penelope Delacorte and Mrs. Tina Bart, Mariah Talbot, Virginia Woolf (P is for Peril), Blanche McKee, Pepper Gray, Ruby Curtsinger and Charles Biedler, Melanie Purcell, Dana Jaffe / Dana Glazer, Crystal Purcell, Nancy (P is for Peril), Jacob Trigg, John Agar (P is for Peril), Aunt Gin, Maclin "Mac" Voorhies, Klotilde (P is for Peril), Robert Dietz, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Naked Prey), Mrs. Dorner, Elvis Presley (The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Fiona Purcell, Dr. Dowan Purcell, Aristotle Onassis (P is for Peril), Detective Odessa, Philip Marlowe (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Joel Glazer and Harvey Broadus, Gloria Swanson (P is for Peril), Lonnie Kingman, Hollis Cayo, Rand (P is for Peril), Leila (P is for Peril), Mrs. Stegler, Tom and Jerry (P is for Peril), Cyril Lambrou, Mr. Harrington, Jonah Robb, Wendell Jaffe, Clint Augustine, Rosie (A is for Alibi), Wolfgang Tumpel (P is for Peril), Henry Pitts, Dr. Yee, Elmer Fudd (Chosen Prey), Anica Blackburn, Fred MacMurray (The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective)
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 27118
places: Santa Teresa, California
series: Kinsey Millhone
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons