"M" Is for Malice

"M" Is for Malice
1st edition cover
Author(s)	Sue Grafton
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Alphabet Mysteries
Genre(s)	Mystery
Publisher	Henry Holt and Company
Publication date	1996
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	300 pp (first edition)
ISBN	9780805036374
OCLC Number	35222991
LC Classification	PS3557.R13 M13 1996
Preceded by	"L" Is for Lawless
Followed by	"N" Is for Noose

"M" Is for Malice is the thirteenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels^[1] and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.^[2]

Plot summary

Kinsey Millhone is hired to find the black sheep of the Malek family after the death of his multi-millionaire father. Guy Malek had been a n'er do well rebel, who had finally tried his father's patience too far twenty years before, and been thrown out & never heard of since. His unlikeable brothers do not want him back in their lives, and especially do not want him taking a share of the millions they feel he did not deserve. Yet the man Kinsey tracks down has changed his life radically and seems to be the best of the Malek boys. His reappearance, followed within days by his murder, opens up wounds which had been hidden for decades.

At the same time, Kinsey is trying to cope with her own personal problems, not helped by the reappearance in her life of Robert Dietz, the attractive but non-committing private investigator with whom she had had a previous relationship.

References

1. ^ "'M' takes a leisurely pace, but true fans will like it". The Deseret News. 1996-11-24. 
2. ^ Schwartz, Amy E. (1996-05-09). "The ABCs of Popular Culture". The Washington Post.