There are countless Sue Grafton courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- X (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
- V is for Vengeance (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
- R is for Ricochet (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
- S is for Silence (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
- A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries, No. 1) (2008)
- W is for Wasted (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
- “K” is for Killer: A Kinsey Millhone Novel (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) (2009)
- “H” is for Homicide: A Kinsey Millhone Novel (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) (2007)
- “M” is for Malice: A Kinsey Millhone Novel (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) (2011)
- U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone) (2016)
- E is for Evidence (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) (2005)
- Y is for Yesterday (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2018)
X (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kissPerhaps Sue Grafton’s darkest and most chilling novel, X features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this deadly sociopath. The test is whether private investigator Kinsey Millhone can prove her case against him—before she becomes his next victim.
V is for Vengeance (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
Private detective Kinsey Millhone feels a bit out of place in any department store’s lingerie section, but she’s entirely in her element when she puts a stop to a brazen shoplifting spree. For her trouble she nearly gets run over in the parking lot by one of the fleeing thieves—and later learns that the one who didn’t get away has been found dead in an apparent suicide.
R is for Ricochet (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but wasn’t there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institution for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she’s about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence.
S is for Silence (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
Cases don’t get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared from her rural California town in 1953, leaving behind an abusive husband and a seven-year-old named Daisy. But PI Kinsey Millhone has promised the now adult Daisy she’ll try her best to locate Violet, dead or alive. All signs point to a runaway wife—the clothes that disappeared; the secret stash of money Violet bragged about; the brazen flirtations she indulged in with local men, including some married ones.
A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries, No. 1) (2008)
Take it from the top in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton’s knockout thriller that introduced detective Kinsey Millhone―and a hot new attitude―to crime fiction… A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California.
W is for Wasted (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2016)
The first victim is a local PI of suspect reputation, gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. The second is a John Doe found on the beach six weeks later with a slip of paper with private detective Kinsey Millhone’s name and number in his pocket. Two seemingly unrelated deaths: one man murdered, the other apparently dead of natural causes.But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange links begin to emerge.
“K” is for Killer: A Kinsey Millhone Novel (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) (2009)
Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn’t resist flirting with danger. Maybe that’s what killed her.Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were mysterious: Lorna’s body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that they couldn’t be certain she hadn’t died of natural causes.
“H” is for Homicide: A Kinsey Millhone Novel (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) (2007)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton’s PI Kinsey Millhone tackles insurance fraud in her latest outing―and finds that she’ll have to commit some deceit of her own to catch a cold-blooded killer… When PI Kinsey Millhone’s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she can’t believe he had any enemies.
“M” is for Malice: A Kinsey Millhone Novel (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) (2011)
Brace yourself for an ” and read (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author The ties that bind. The rivalries of brotherhood.
U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone) (2016)
Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone’s office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure.
E is for Evidence (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) (2005)
No one writes a thriller like #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton. In E is for Evidence, PI Kinsey Millhone becomes the victim of a nasty frame-up…E IS FOR EXBeing a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhone―until holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line.
Y is for Yesterday (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) (2018)
In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate–and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state’s evidence and two of his peers are convicted.
Best Sue Grafton Books: The Ultimate List
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V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)
Author(s): Sue Grafton
ID: 789886, Publisher: A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, Year: 2011, Size: 418 Kb, Format: lit
U is for Undertow
Author(s): Sue Grafton
ID: 449777, Publisher: , Year: 2009, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Author(s): Michael Connelly (editor), Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, Tess Gerritsen, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Lisa Scottoline, et al.
ID: 471120, Publisher: , Year: 2009, Size: 4 Mb, Format: pdf
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