Blakesley Lindsay, Elizabeth. (2007) Great Women Mystery Writers. " Sue Grafton". pp 95–8. Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-33428-5 I'll still work on continuing this series. The first books aren't always the best, so here's hoping the books go up. Mystery writer Sue Grafton dies in California". www.msn.com. Archived from the original on December 30, 2017 . Retrieved December 29, 2017.

A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, she's got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. If You Want Something Done Right . . . (Published 2020) An unpublished story found among Sue Grafton's papers by her husband after her death and originally published in ’Deadly Anniversaries, edited by Marcia Muller and Bill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 . [41]Reprinted in The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021 , edited by Lee Child. a b c d e Myers, Marc (August 22, 2017). "Author Sue Grafton's Scary Childhood Home". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on October 11, 2017 . Retrieved December 30, 2017.

Kinsey Millhone, an average detective with a conscience and a relaxed lifestyle, lands a whopper of a case to open this first of many, many books. Her client's wishes? To find out who really killed her husband AFTER she's released from prison for doing the deed. Her experience as a screenwriter taught her the basics of structuring a story, writing dialogue, and creating action sequences. Grafton then felt ready to return to writing fiction. [13] While going through a "bitter divorce and custody battle that lasted six long years", Grafton imagined ways to kill or maim her ex-husband. Her fantasies were so vivid that she decided to write them down. [16] Alphabet series [ edit ] Sue Grafton

Okay. So, Kinsey is a private investigator who is looking into an old murder after the person who was wrongfully convicted gets out of prison. This story is completely procedural as she goes through her steps of solving the crime. Did I solve it before her? Yes. Of course I did. But, there was one little detail that surprised me, so that was fun. I didn't expect two different killers.

a b Fenno, Christine (October 28, 2007). " The Office: See Spot Not Run". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved December 3, 2008. Teaching a Child" (2013) – essay in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Company. In the Superego podcast Season 3 Episode 14, guest star, actor and comedian, Rob Delaney impersonates Sue Grafton. [47]

She took a manila folder out of her big leather bag. "I have some newspaper clippings. I can leave those with you if you like. That's the number where I can be reached."She is survived by Steven, and by three children, Leslie, Jamie and Jay, from her previous marriages. If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. 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 jogged south on Wilshire, just for variety, cutting across to San Vicente at Twenty-sixth Street.” There's a lot of filler in this book that could have been left out and the story would have been the same. I did enjoy it, but I also started getting drained by just how MUCH filler there was. The story itself wasn't obvious either. Sure, the odd clue was left behind, but I couldn't piece the mystery together myself which is my preferred kind of mystery/thriller book. If we get all of those details... Can they at least be important?

a b c d "The Anthony Awards: A Literary Award for Crime Fiction". Crime Fiction Awards . Retrieved July 31, 2022. But her initial three books went unpublished, and it wasn’t until 1967 that her fourth, Keziah Dane, became the first to reach the public domain. That was followed by The Lolly-Madonna War (1969), a story of feuding families in the Appalachian hills, which was adapted into a film called Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973). Despite a strong cast with Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Randy Quaid, Gary Busey and Season Hubley, the film died. Nonetheless, Grafton’s work on its screenplay led her to spend the next 15 years screenwriting – primarily in television movies, although after writing the teleplay for the 1981 movie Nurse, starring Michael Learned, she developed it into a series that ran for two seasons. Asked once about the prospect of her own novels being adapted for the small screen, she had quipped: “I would never let those clowns get their hands on my books,” though B is for Burglar and D is for Deadbeat were adapted as TV movies in Japan. 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. Exclusive rights to the late Sue Grafton’s popular alphabet book series featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone— A is for Alibi and so on—have sold to A+E Studios. Now, the studio can develop the entirety of the series for television. Steve Humphrey, Grafton’s husband, will serve as executive producer.a b c Loosemore, Bailey (December 29, 2017). "Sue Grafton, internationally acclaimed mystery author and Louisville native, dies". Louisville Courier-Journal . Retrieved December 30, 2017. 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.