"J" Is For Judgment by Sue Grafton

Kinsey Millhone is employed by the same company that booted her out of her office the previous fall. Wendell Jaffe, who disappeared five years ago, is thought to be still alive, and the insurance company has just awarded his widow (if she really was) $ 500,000.00 life insurance monies wants to know if Wendell is dead or alive. If you have been reading the Kinsey mysteries, you will remember that her parents were killed in an auto accident when she was five and raised by an aunt who is now deceased. Thinking she has no other family, she discovers the possibility there might be some relatives after all. Sue Grafton does a fine job of continuing the saga of Kinsey Millhone, private investigator, allowing the reader to sneak glimpses of life in southern California and encouraging us to be as nosy as Kinsey. A good read. I like this series very much. Sandy P