Title: V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone, #22)
Description: *A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart.*

A woman with a murky past jumps off a bridge, or was she thrown? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt thinks he can beat the system. A lovely woman whose marriage is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring working for the Mob, racks up millions from stolen goods. A wandering husband is rich and ruthless. A dirty cop is so entrenched on the force he is immune to exposure. A sinister gangster is conscienceless and brutal. A lonely widower mourns the death of his lover, desperate for answers, which may be worse than the pain of his loss. Private detective Kinsey Millhone's thirty-eighth-birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her with two black eyes and a busted nose.

And an elegant and powerful businessman whose dealings are definitely outside the law: the magus at the center of the web.

V: Victim. Violence. Vengeance.
Subjects: Fiction, Women private investigators, Crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Millhone, kinsey (fictitious character), fiction, Santa teresa (calif. : imaginary place), fiction, California, fiction, Private investigators, fiction