N is for Noose

It was Kinsey Millhone's responsibility to reverse the automobile. heading towards home. Rather, she was going to place herself in the greatest danger of her professional life.

For many years, Tom Newquist worked as a tough, trustworthy investigator in the Nota Lake sheriff's office, earning the respect of everybody. The people in the community were shocked yet not shocked when he passed away unexpectedly. Newquist was over sixty-five, smoked excessively, and did not get enough exercise. This, along with his gluttony, turned him become the face of an American Heart Association commercial.

The widow of Newquist had no doubts about the coroner's findings. All Selma could accept, however, was that she had no idea what had troubled Tom in the last six weeks of his life. What was it that kept him always gloomy and making him roam about at night? Selma was curious as to what was troubling her husband so much.

It was an instance of what was called a "needle in a haystack," imprecise and forlorn. After Kinsey established her business in Nota Lake, she discovered that locating a needle may extract blood. Probably her own. In the book "N Is for Noose," Kinsey Millhone is the target, and the whole town seems set on killing her.