J is for Judgement - Sue Grafton

For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity – the company that had fired her nine months previously.

Five hours later she was on a plane to Mexico, hot on the trail of a suicide who’d allegedly just come back to life. After a five-year wait, Wendell Jaffe’s widow had finally succeeded in having the real estate swindler declared dead, collecting half a million dollars for her pains. Now it looks more like a pseudocide – and Kinsey’s ready to risk everything to get to the truth.