Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - BEFORE
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5 - NORA
Chapter 6 - DANTE
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10 - NORA
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14 - DANTE
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18 - NORA
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22 - DANTE
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26 - NORA
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29 - DANTE
Chapter 30
Chapter 31 - DANTE
Chapter 32 - AFTER
ALSO BY SUE GRAFTON
Kinsey Millhone mysteries
A MARIAN WOOD BOOK
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Copyright © 2011 by Sue Grafton All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions. Published simultaneously in Canada
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Grafton, Sue.
“V” is for vengeance / Sue Grafton
p. cm.
“A Marian Wood Book. ”
ISBN : 978-1-101-54813-4
1. Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women private investigators—California—Fiction.
3. Theft—Fiction. 4. Organzied crime—Fiction. 5. Murder—Fiction. 6. Revenge—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3557. R13V
813’. 54—dc22
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.