>G IS FOR GUMSHOE KINSEY MILLHONE, Sue Grafton's SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-BASED FEMALE SLEUTH, seeks a missing old lady while trying to avoid a paid assassin. (Fawcett)
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS Easy Rawlins, a black Army vet reluctantly turned detective, debuts in Walter Mosley's jazzy, Chandler-esque plot that centers on a nervy, beautiful ingenue. (Pocket)
BLOSSOM Only the title is flowery as Andrew Vachss's brutal antihero Burke turns up to introduce justice to a sex-obsessed sniper with a thing for teenagers. (Ivy)
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