Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially popular series that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the case here. Two old, ailing cops–one retired, the other disabled–try to breathe some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them […]
When Dowan Purcell, a respected physician who operates a nursing home, disappears, his ex-wife hires Santa Teresa PI Kinsey Millhone to look into it. Fiona Purcell is still seething over Dows affair and subsequent marriage to Crystal, a former stripper, yet theyre still friends, and she seems worried. But when his body is discovered, shes […]
Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said shed run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old […]
Wise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Graftons gritty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star will take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random phone call from a “storage space scavenger” (someone who buys the contents of defaulted storage units) leads Kinsey to a box […]
In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Graftons T is for Trespass is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the voice of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a […]
When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhones office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Its a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnt deliver the money himself. Shes almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardos retainer against […]
Fired by the insurance agency for whom she investigates, Kinsey is forced to take on a last-minute murder investigation in which the ex-husband of a murdered artist claims that David Barney, her current husband, is guilty as sin. Barney gets to Kinsey and insists hes innocent. But if he is, whos guilty? In trying to […]
Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Pattys hit list. Its the last that convinces Kinsey […]
When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, its hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlake-a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boys-was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her […]
“Ms. Grafton writes a smart story and wraps it up with a wry twist.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Wendell Jaffe has been dead for five years–until his former insurance agent spots him in a dusty resort bar. Now California Fidelity wants Kinsey Millhone to track down the dead man. Just two months […]
Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhone-until holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line. And if that isnt enough to […]
His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, hed been a claims adjuster for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. and to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelitys offices. To […]
Every investigation has a nature of its own, but there are certain shared characteristics,” explains private eye Kinsey Millhone in her 13th alphabetic outing. “Heres what you hope for: a chance remark from the former neighbor on a skip-trace, a penciled notation on the corner of a document, an ex-spouse with a grudge, the number […]
When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who cant let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months […]
Both new readers and old fans will welcome this 12th Kinsey Milhone adventure in the “A” is for Alibi series by Sue Grafton. In this case, Kinsey agrees to do a favor for a friend of a friend and gets herself into so much trouble that she promises at the outset never to do such […]