A is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series Book 1)

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The book is narrated by Kinsey Millhone herself and opens with a perfect intrpoduction of who she is.... Lccn 81007128 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition And, despite this reading a little bit like an old Murder She Wrote episode, I liked Kinsey. She was very human and easy to understand. She wasn't a special snowflake. She wasn't so beautiful that every guy wanted her. She wasn't even the smartest person in the room most of the time. But, I found her likable because of all of that. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.

I jogged south on Wilshire, just for variety, cutting across to San Vicente at Twenty-sixth Street.” In the Superego podcast Season 3 Episode 14, guest star, actor and comedian, Rob Delaney impersonates Sue Grafton. [47]Mystery writer Sue Grafton dies in California". www.msn.com. Archived from the original on December 30, 2017 . Retrieved December 29, 2017. Kinsey had been to the trial eight years previously and formed an opinion then – she felt that Nikki was innocent but with the length of time since it had all happened, the case was definitely a cold one. She would be starting from scratch on her very first case. As she began digging into the lives of the people who had been connected to the divorce lawyer – his ex-wife, his children, his law partner – she was frustrated. She couldn’t get anything to gel; nothing felt right. She travelled from California to LA, to Vegas, to the various places that she deemed necessary; but it seemed she had a lot of paperwork and not much else.

In 2019, an award in Grafton's memory was established by G.P. Putnam's Sons and is under the aegis of the Mystery Writers of America. [39] Works [ edit ]

urn:oclc:505877781 Scandate 20100407193735 Scanner scribe2.sanfrancisco.archive.org Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Source a b Crace, John (March 18, 2013). "Sue Grafton: 'My childhood ended when I was five' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on September 10, 2017 . Retrieved December 31, 2017. At the beginning of the book, I was delighted that the story seemed dialogue driven, with everything the reader needed to know being said by the characters, but soon parts of excessive wordiness crept in, particularly descriptions of people and houses. Kinsey and Me (2013) – a collection of nine Kinsey Millhone short stories along with 12 other short stories about Grafton's own mother. The Kinsey Millhone stories, with one exception, appeared in magazines and mystery anthologies between 1986 and 1991. The dozen other stories, none previously published, feature Kit Blue, who, Grafton said, "is simply a younger version of myself." [40] The book also includes a preface, introductions to the two separate story collections, and a previously published essay on hard-boiled private investigators.