Ruby Sisson Library

Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist...

Lorna Kepler's death was mysterious, involving no known motive or suspect; even the means were mysterious. In the ten months since her daughter's death, Janice Kepler had joined a support group, trying to come to terms with her loss. Leaving a session one evening, and noticing a light on in the offices of Millhone investigations, she knocked on the door.

Eva, a widow and retired history teacher, enjoys a quiet life. Everything changes when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. At the not-so-gentle urging of her best friend Maddie, Eva deposits the money and the two friends head to the Canary Islands with every intention of living it up. But their fantasy is short-lived when they discover that they have become media sensations overnight....

One winter night in 1879, at a Kansas campsite near Crooked Creek, a man was shot to death. The dead man's traveling companion identified him as John Hillmon, a cowboy from Lawrence who had been attempting to carve out a life on the blustery prairie. The case might have been soon forgotten and the apparent widow, Sallie Hillmon, left to mourn, except for the $25,000 life insurance policies Hillmon had taken out shortly before his departure. The insurance...

"G" is for gumshoe : Kinsey Millhone's thrity-third birthday brings about final renovations to her apartment, a new ase, and the top slot on Tyrone Patty's hit list. Obviously, it would turn out to be a birthday to remember. "H" is for homicide : To the cops, the death of claims adjuster Parnell Perkins looked like a robbery gone sour ; to Kinsey Millhone, it looks strangely suspicious. As the evidence leads Kinsey to insurance scammer Bibianna...