"N" Is for Noose

Kinsey Millhone is back in her fourteenth adventure - one of the best to date in Grafton's supremely popular series. Kinsey takes a case in tiny Nota Lake, Nevada, where deputy sheriff Tom Newquist has recently died of a heart attack. His grief-stricken widow, Selma, is convinced Tom died as a result of the terrible stress he was under during his last weeks, and she's determined to find out the source of that stress. Kinsey sorts through stacks of paper, old notes, bills, and phone lists but can't find a single clue about what was troubling Tom. About to give up and head back to L.A., she finally stumbles on a lead that makes her stop in her tracks. Apparently Tom was following up on a double homicide, and as Kinsey probes further into the bizarre details, she finds that he suspected the killer may have been one of his colleagues. .