B is for Burglar - Sue Grafton

to home about Sue Grafton s work - she has created a character that will appeal to most women. The author Sue Grafton is the daughter of C W Grafton, who wrote three detective novels during the 1940s. She wrote two non-crime fiction books during the late 1960s and then became a screenwriter in Hollywood for several years, during which she wrote film scripts for two Agatha Christie books (not that this is something to recommend her - one of them, Sparkling Cyanide, was a travesty of justice and should never have been written!). While going through a difficult divorce, she began to plan the Kinsey Millhone series, which thankfully was a million times better than the ...

R is for Ricochet - Sue Grafton

does appear in this story to be more cautious and introspective and, at times, one does wonder whether she’s losing her spirit of adventure. It crossed my mind that Sue Grafton, the author, is now in her 60’s but her protagonist, Kinsey, is in her mid-30’s. Has Grafton subconsciously instilled some of the sense of caution that comes to most of us as we get older and the line between real-life and her fictional character become blurred? Perhaps Grafton is testing the waters for new characters now that she only has another 8 alphabet letters to go. Will she retire Kinsey altogether from her stable? If she does, I would like to see more of Reba – an apparently tough cookie ...