"F" is for Fugitive (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries)

Bailey Fowler, a long-time fugitive convicted of the murder of seventeen-year-old Jean Timberlake, has been captured. When his terminally-ill father asks P.I. Kinsey Millhone to prove Bailey's innocence, Kinsey heads to Floral Beach, California. She quickly finds herself engulfed by small-town gossip and secrets. As she unravels layers of deceit and dysfunction, Kinsey angers more than one person, and when more residents become the target of a murderer, Kinsey realizes that there's nothing 'private' about this tiny town....