Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue . . . The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone's name and number was in his pants' pocket. Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes. But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery, some very strange links begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey finds the key to the homeless man's' identity . . . In this multi-layered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised . . . Praise for Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series 'Sue Grafton's 'alphabet' series of crime novels has entertained readers for years. She is on top form in W is for Wasted' Sunday Times 'Brilliant . . . Heaven knows what we'll do when Grafton gets to Z' Daily Mail