num_pages: 352
description: 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 Colombian drug cartel - they just need the proof.When Kinsey is asked to persuade Reba to unveil crucial evidence guaranteed to put Beckwith behind bars, she doesn't expect cooperation. But when Reba hears shocking new information about her lover, she 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...
language: English
title: R is for Ricochet
titlecomplete: R is for Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone, #18)
characters: Marty Blumberg, Freddie (R is for Ricochet), Lorna Kepler, Two thugs (R is for Ricochet), Cheney Phillips, Aunt Gin, Daniel (O is for Outlaw), Alan Beckwith, Lewis Pitts, William Pitts, Nord Lafferty, Maurice Stans, Reba Lafferty, Vince Turner, Willie (Willard), Kenneth Rexroth (R is for Ricochet), Priscilla Holloway, Mr. Fitzgerald, George Michael (R is for Ricochet), Lieutenant Con Dolan, Jonah Robb, Tasha Howard, Rosie (A is for Alibi), Henry Pitts, Misty Raine, Queen Elizabeth II (Shoot Him if He Runs), Kinsey Millhone, Danielle (K is for Killer), Robert Dietz, Gloria Steinem (R is for Ricochet), Mickey Magruder, Salustio Castillo, Jerry Vale (R is for Ricochet), John le Carre (Until the Night), Stacey Oliphant, Onni (R is for Ricochet), Garrison Randolph, Vera Lipton, Harrison Ford (Orchid Beach), Mattie Halstead
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, American, Thriller, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 34200
places: Santa Teresa, California
series: Kinsey Millhone
publisher: Macmillan