Books with author SueGrafton

'First there was a phone call from a stranger, then a letter showed up fourteen years after it was sent. That's how I learned I'd made a serious error in judgement and ended up risking my life ...' 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 curiousity wins out and she hands over a twenty (she may be curious but she loves a bargain). What she finds amid childhood memorabilia is an old undelivered letter. It will force her to re-examine her beliefs about the break-up of her first marriage, about the honour of her first husband, about an old unsolved murder. And it will put her life in the gravest peril. 'A fascinating insight into what made Kinsey the women she is now' Daily Express 'Grafton's fans will be thrilled with this knockout Kinsey Millhone mystery ...One of the very best entries in a long-lived and much-loved series' Publishers Weekly

Sue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with this twisting, complex #1 New York Times bestseller that draws private investigator Kinsey Millhone into a case shrouded in the sins of the past.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. Now, all these years later, the long-forgotten events have come back to him—and he has pieced them together with news reports from the time, becoming convinced that he witnesses the burial of a kidnapped child.Kinsey has nearly nothing to go on. Sutton doesn't even know where he was that day—and, she soon discovers, he has a history of what might generously be called an active imagination. Despite her doubts, Kinsey sets out to track down the so-called burial site. And what's found there pulls her into a hidden current of deceit stretching back more than twenty years...

‘My name is Kinsey Millhone. I’m a licensed private investigator... thirty-two, twice divorced. I like being alone and I suspect that my independence suits me better than it should...’Kinsey met Bobby Callahan in the gym on Monday morning.His story was hard to credit: a murderous assault by a tailgating car on a lonely rural road, a roadside smash into a canyon 400 feet below, his Porsche a ruin, his best friend dead, and his memory severely impaired. He was convinced someone was trying to kill him.By Thursday, he was dead.But Kinsey wasn’t going back on a deal. She had been hired to prevent a murder. Now she was looking for the murderer...‘Quiveringly alive’ Daily Telegraph‘C is for classy, multiplex plotting, strong characterization and a tough cookie heroine’ Time Out‘She has guts, humour, and conscience... alphabetically speaking, we can look forward to 23 more Kinseys’ The Times

When an innocent looking young man walks into her office unannounced, PI Kinsey Millhone cannot imagine what kind of trouble he could be in. Turns out the clean-cut Michael Sutton is older than he looks and is suffering from a resurrected past traumatic memory. When he was only six years old he believes he stumbled across the burial of an even younger little girl, who had gone missing and who--20-something years later--was still an open missing-person case. Michael asks Millhone to investigate. Quickly, however, Millhone, who's fast-approaching her 38th birthday and has been in this line of business long enough to know when the pieces don't fit together, begins to suspect that Michael's not exactly telling her the full truth. This is Sue Grafton's 21st addition to her Alphabet Series, and yet it reads with as much energy and freshness as brand-new series. Full of all the fun that readers have come to expect, U FOR UNDERTOW dishes up a satisfying Grafton-Millhone serving of surprises and suspense.