Published 2020) An unpublished story found among Sue Grafton's papers by her husband after her death and originally published in ’Deadly Anniversaries, edited by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini . And make no mistake: Millhone may get herself into danger but she’s neither foolhardy nor a stereotypical ‘damsel in distress. The story is filled with unexpected twists and turns, keeping the reader engaged until the very end.

She created the popular Kinsey Millhone series, with each book titled after a letter of the alphabet. I pulled the coffeepot from the bottom of the file cabinet and filled it from the Sparkletts water bottle behind the door. Lorelei King's screen credits include Notting Hill, Martha Meets Frank, Daniel and Laurence , Cold Feet and Chef .After she went out of jail eight years later, Nikki hires Kinsey Millhone, a private Investigator to find out who killed her husband and framed her.

When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer--and sharper--than she imagined. I do a certain number of investigations for them in exchange for two rooms with a separate entrance and a small balcony overlooking the main street of Santa Teresa. I mean, it is so completely obvious from the first introduction (how "sexual" Charlie was) that Grafton planned on throwing these two together.stars to A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton, the first book in the Kinsey Millhone private investigator cozy mystery series. Kinsey starts to piece together the events leading up to Laurence's murder and realizes that there are several people who had motives to kill him. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, she's got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. In this, Kinsey Millhone's first case, she is visited at her office by a woman named Nikki Fife who has just been paroled after serving an 8-year prison sentence for the murder of her divorce attorney-husband Laurence Fife. Writing when the book was released, Kirkus Reviews said this was a "shakily plotted but otherwise terrific start for a new detective series".

These became the series now known as the "alphabet novels", featuring sleuth and private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate—and film the attack. She's a twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments but with a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes.The state of California is scrupulous in its division of assets, but Laurence Fife had a way of maneuvering monies so that even a fifty-fifty split gave him the lion’s share. Five years ago, when Jaffe's thirty-five-foot Fuji ketch was found drifting off the Baja coast, it seemed a sure thing he'd gone overboard.

Grafton creates a believable world and an engaging heroine, with just the right amount of secrets to keep you reading the series, which I definitely will.Kinsey begins her reinvestigation into Laurence Fife's murder with a visit to the Santa Teresa Police Department where she asked Lieutenant Con Dolan for a look at the Fife case files. All too often, in books, movies, and TV, we see investigators focusing solely on one mystery at a time. The roof was nearly flat, peppered with rocks, the iron railings sending streaks of rust down the sides of the building. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.