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Sue Grafton

Sue Grafton

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Sue Grafton is the daughter of novelist C. W. Grafton and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of Presbyterian ministers. Grafton and her sister Ann were raised in Louisville. She attended both the University of Louisville (freshman year) and Western Kentucky State Teachers College (sophomore and junior years) before graduating from the University of Louisville in 1961 with a bachelors degree in English Literature and minors in Humanities and the Fine Arts.

Grafton began writing when she was 18 and finished her first novel four years later. She continued writing, and completed six more manuscripts. Two of these seven novels were published. Unable to find success with her novels, Grafton turned to screenplays. She spent the next fifteen years writing screenplays for television movies, including Sex and the Single Parent, Mark, I Love You, and Nurse. Her screenplay for Walking Through the Fire earned a Christopher Award in 1979. In collaboration with her husband, Steven Humphrey, she also adapted the Agatha Christie novels A Caribbean Mystery and Sparkling Cyanide for television, as well as cowriting Killer in the Family and Love on the Run.

All novels of the series are written from the perspective of a female private investigator named Kinsey Millhone who lives in Santa Teresa, California. Grafton's first book of this series is "A" Is for Alibi, written and set in 1982. The series continues with "B" Is for Burglar, "C" Is for Corpse, and so on through the alphabet. After the publication of "G" Is for Gumshoe, Grafton was able to quit her screenwriting job and focus on her novels. The timeline of the series is slower than real-time - "Q" Is for Quarry, for example, is set in 1987, even though it was written in 2002. Her latest book, "T" Is for Trespass, was released in December 2007, and "U is for Undertow" is to follow. Grafton has publicly stated that the final novel in the series will be titled "Z" Is for Zero.

Available Books by Sue Grafton

A Is For Alibi by Sue Grafton

A Is For Alibi
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330315821
RRP: $19.95

Kinsey had been out for most of the morning and the client was waiting in the corridor. Nikki Fife. The eight years since Kinsey had seen her had left no visable scars. But now she was looking for the help that only a detective could provide. For whoever had killed her husband, it wasn't Nikki Fife. And if his wife wasn't the murderer, that meant someone else was . . ....

B Is For Burglar by Sue Grafton

B Is For Burglar
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330315838
RRP: $19.95

Business was slow, and there was nothing about Beverly Danziger to cause Kinsey concern. She was looking for her sister. She paid upfront. And if it seemed a lot of money for a routine job, Kinsey wasn't going to argue. She kicked herself later for the things she didn't see. But by then she was in danger, and money was the last thing on her mind....

C Is For Corpse by Sue Grafton

C Is For Corpse
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330315845
RRP: $19.95

Kinsey met Bobby Callahan in the gym on Monday morning. By Thursday, he was dead. He was convinced someone was trying to kill him and it turned out to be true, but no one figured it out in time to save him. Kinsey had never worked for a dead man before and hoped she wouldn't have to again. This report was for him . . ....

D Is For Deadbeat by Sue Grafton

D Is For Deadbeat
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330315852
RRP: $19.95

It was late October, the day before Halloween. He introduced himself as Alvin Limardo, which wasn't his real name. The job he hired Kinsey to do seemed simple enough . . . until his cheque bounced. By the time she caught up with him he was dead and Kinsey collected far more than she'd bargained for . . ....

E Is For Evidence by Sue Grafton

E Is For Evidence
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330315869
RRP: $19.95

It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn't made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped . . ....

F Is For Fugitive by Sue Grafton

F Is For Fugitive
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330315876
RRP: $19.95

Seventeen years had passed since Jean Timberlake's body had been found at the foot of the sea wall. At the time, Bailey Fowler, an ex-boyfriend of hers, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Now he'd changed his tune. Kinsey Millhone was called in to solve the case - then she stumbled on the dark secrets of a family's buried past . . ....

G Is For Gumshoe by Sue Grafton

G Is For Gumshoe
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330317238
RRP: $19.95

Three things happened on May 5, the day everyone sang 'Happy Birthday' to Kinsey Millhone. The repairs were completed on her apartment, and she moved back in. She was hired by Mrs Clyde Gersh to bring her mother back from the Mojave Desert. And lastly, a real surprise. The news that she'd made one of the top slots on Tyrone Patty's hit list......

H Is For Homicide by Sue Grafton

H Is For Homicide
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330321952
RRP: $19.95

After a three-week-long investigation, Kinsey couldn't wait to get home. What she needed most was a few quiet days by herself - but two things happened to change all her plans. First she ran into a murder case. Then Kinsey met Bibianna Diaz, and before the night was over they were sharing a prison cell . . . ...

I Is For Innocent by Sue Grafton

I Is For Innocent
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330326438
RRP: $19.95

It was a Monday early in December when Kinsy Millhone first got involved in the Isabelle Barney murder case. She was out of work. Attorney Lonnie Klingman's usual private investigator had just dropped dead of a heart attack. Kinsey was more than happy to oblige. The trouble started on the very first day of the investigation. Either Kinsey's predecessor was incompetant - or someone had...

J Is For Judgement by Sue Grafton

J Is For Judgement
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330333405
RRP: $19.95

For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity - the company that had fired her nine months previously. Five hours later she was on a plane to Mexico, hot on the trail of a suicide who'd allegedly just come back to life. After a five year wait, Wendell Jaffe's widow had finally succeeded in having the real estate swindler ...

K Is For Killer by Sue Grafton

K Is For Killer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330334808
RRP: $19.95

Lorna Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. She had also been found dead in mysterious circumstances and her death pulls Kinsey Millhone into a netherworld of deception, betrayal and unavenged murder....

L Is For Lawless by Sue Grafton

L Is For Lawless
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330334815
RRP: $19.95

It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee, the World War II fighter pilot of whom, rather mysteriously, the military authorities have no record. His family are concerned - perhaps Kinsey could make a few calls, straighten things out? Then Johnny's apartment is ransacked. In the debris a hidden safe is uncovered - and in that sa...

M Is For Malice by Sue Grafton

M Is For Malice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330348768
RRP: $19.95

"M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons now entering middle age who stand to inherit a fortune - four men with very different temperaments and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them - angry and troubled and in trouble - w...

N Is For Noose by Sue Grafton

N Is For Noose
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330348775
RRP: $19.95

Early spring in the Sierra Nevada, bringing the usual driving sleet and snow. PI Kinsey Millhone is on her way west when she detours into Nota Lake (pop. 2356) to check out a new client. And encounters a chill she can scarcely believe. Only six weeks have passed since sheriff's detective Tom Newquist died of a heart attack. His widow is sure he was keeping secrets from her just before he d...

O Is For Outlaw by Sue Grafton

O Is For Outlaw
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330371957
RRP: $19.95

A Kinsey Millhone Mystery. The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last weekend he bought a stack. They had stuff in them - Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks, he'll sell her the lot. Kinsey's never been one for personal possessions, but curiosity wins out and she hands over a twenty (she may be curious but she loves a bargain). Wha...

P Is For Peril by Sue Grafton

P Is For Peril
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330371964
RRP: $19.95

In her latest adventure, Kinsey Millhone enters the world of noir. A shadowland in which the mysterious disappearance of a prominent physician leads Kinsey into a danger-filled maze of duplicity and double-dealing . . . It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine year old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had ...

Q Is For Quarry by Sue Grafton

Q Is For Quarry
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330488334
RRP: $19.95

'Quarry, n. An open excavation Quarry, n. Transitive: To dig up or take from. Quarry, n. Intransitive: To delve into Quarry, n. An object pursued or hunted; prey' She was a "Jane Doe", an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives ...

R Is For Ricochet by Sue Grafton

R Is For Ricochet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330488341
RRP: $19.95

Kinsey Millhone, employed by Nord Lafferty to drive his daughter home from her incarceration at the Californian Institute for Women, marvels at the simplicity of the task. But Reba Lafferty emerges feisty and rebellious, and Kinsey is soon fighting to prevent her charge from breaking the conditions of her parole. As she finds herself befriending the ex-gambler, ex-alcoholic and ex-con, Kinsey dis...

S Is For Silence by Sue Grafton

S Is For Silence
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330438889
RRP: $19.95

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 Californian town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, Violet's absence has never...

T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton

T is for Trespass
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330438896
RRP: $19.99

"It was like being in the presence of a snake, first hissing its presence and then coiled in readiness. I didn't dare turn my back or take my eyes off of her. I stood very still. I let go of my fight-or-flight defense and decided to play dead. If you run from a bear, it gives chase. That's the nature of the beast. Likewise a snake. If I moved, she might strike." When her elderly n...

U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton

U is for Undertow
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780230709324
RRP: $49.99

In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned... When the case is reopened after 20 years, a man Michael Sutton contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery. He may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh's body... But Mich...

U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton

U is for Undertow
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780230711372
RRP: $32.99

In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned... When the case is reopened after 20 years, a man Michael Sutton contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery. He may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh's body... But Mi...

U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton

U is for Undertow
Binding: Audio
ISBN: 9780230746435
RRP: $36.99

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U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton

U is for Undertow
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330519915
RRP: $19.99

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