iamisaac (iamisaac) wrote in 52fandoms, @ 2009-03-05 18:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | alphabet series, genfic, kinsey millhone, pg, sue grafton |
Alphabet Murders: X is for unXpected
Fandom: Sue Grafton Alphabet Series
Character: Kinsey Millhone
Rating: PG
Word Count: 246
Hello. I'm Kinsey Millhone, and last Saturday I found a dead body.
Wait, let me back-track a bit. I'm a Private Investigator, and this isn't the first body I've found. But it kind of came from nowhere. I was on a missing person case. Nothing complex - an ex-lover who'd run off with $20,000 of my client's savings which she rather wanted back. She had his name, birth date, a photo of him and her together (one of those 'cutesy' ones where they're standing under a big neon heart. I might not've stolen money from someone who made me do that, but I'd sure as hell have bailed from town); usual sort of thing. What she didn't expect - and nor did I when the case started - was that I'd find him dead.
Oh, and when I say 'dead', I don't mean he jumped off a cliff when he saw me coming. I mean really, seriously - and, bluntly, stinkingly - dead. It's not something you want to find, and it's definitely not something you want to give news of. A great conversation to start:
"By the way, your lover didn't walk out on you, someone murdered him."
I wasn't quite that blunt, though no one's exactly ever suggested my middle name should be 'tact'. Anyway, I'd found him, if not the money. Job over, right? Well, she thought so and I thought so. There was just one small problem.
The killer had different ideas.