M Is for Malice - Sue Grafton

T Is for Trespass - Sue Grafton

T Is For Trespass is the latest in the Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton. The series started in 1982 with A is for Alibi, and she has written further ones almost every year till now. Sue Grafton also published "Keziah Dane" and "The Lolly Madonna War" in 1967 and 1969 respectively. In 1992 "Kinsey and Me" was published, it is a collection of short stories. Initially publishing her books was slow, and Sue Grafton spent 15 years writing screenplays. During a bitter and lengthy divorce she found an outlet in fantasising about ways to kill her husband. Eventually she turned this into a basis for her series. The lead character is always Kinsey ...

S is for Silence - Sue Grafton

book is that the crime took place many years before and involves delving into the past, a type of crime fiction I particularly enjoy. My only worry is that Sue Grafton, now in her late sixties, may not be able to finish the series before her death! Kinsey Millhone s character is one with whom I can easily identify because she is far from perfect. Brought up by an elderly maiden aunt after the death of her parents, she has a lot of issues which make her very believable - for example, all her relationships with men fail, and she has occasional weight issues - compared to many other fictional detectives, she is a breath of fresh air. Written mainly in the first person, the ...

S is for Silence - Sue Grafton

Well, here we are at S , the nineteenth book in Sue Grafton s ABC series featuring Kinsey Millhone, the female Californian private investigator. A brief synopsis: Daisy Sullivan is only 7-years-old when her young, glamorous and flirtatious mother, Violet, disappears without trace from their small town in California. Thirty-four years later, having borne salacious rumours and whispering about her missing mother and the possible reason for her disappearance, the grown-up Daisy wants the solace of closure and hires Kinsey to find out, once and for all, why her mother appeared to have up and left her without a backward glance. Would I recommend S is for Silence? Yes, ...