Palmer has been a reader favorite for more than 30 years. In this tale, attorney Hawke Grayson is known as a ladies man around town. Reporter Cyrene Jameson feels she's immune to his charms But when she's assigned to do a story on Hawke, she wonders if her defenses will hold up.
Eighteen years after the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered in a quarry off California's Highway 1, two police detectives nearing retirement enlist Kinsey Millhone's aid to help identify the long-ago murder victim.
After returning home from the Crusades, Bayard plans to marry to secure his family's estate and is convinced that the matter will be settled quickly when he receives an invitation to a contest for the hand of Esmeraude.
Lawyer Jake Chastaine knows how things are supposed to be, and it doesn't include a mix-up at a fertility clinic or fathering a child with a woman he's never met. And looking at the vivid redhead who was the mother, he realized he missed out on something spectacular. It's supposed to be "first comes love, then comes marriage" -- maybe this time things will happen a little differently.