High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940) is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the `alphabet series` ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she has said the strongest influence on her crime novels is author Ross Macdonald. Prior to success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies.
READ THE SENSATIONAL BLOCKBUSTER THAT STARTED IT ALL! 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 A IS FOR AVENGER 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. A IS FOR ACCUSED That`s why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she`s out on parole and needs Kinsey`s help to find the real killer....
ISBN: 978-0-312-93899-4
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sara Paretsky, Margery Allingham, Sue Grafton, Patricia Highsmith
Murder of a stranger or a relative, in a quiet English town or a crowded American city. It happens everywhere for all kinds of reasons. Short stories by some of the finest modern crime writers.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-5218-0
Издательство:
Longman Group UK Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Grafton`s "T Is for Trespass" is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the voice of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath.
ISBN: 978-0-425-22484-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Even more so when Kinsey Milhone`s only lead is a grown man dredging up a repressed childhood memory - of something that may never have happened. (Grafton`s) most structurally complex, psychologically potent book to date.
ISBN: 978-0-425-23811-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
The #1 "New York Times" bestseller, based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, is now available in paperback. Revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe`s real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.
ISBN: 978-0-425-19272-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee`s father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee`s past starts coming back to haunt her.
ISBN: 978-0-425-20386-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff`s office - a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, smoked too much, and exercised too little. Newquist`s widow didn`t doubt the coroner`s report. But what Selma couldn`t accept was not knowing what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life. What was it that had made him prowl restlessly at night, that had him brooding constantly? Selma Newquist wanted closure, and the only way she`d get it was if she found out what it was that had so bedeviled her husband. Kinsey should have dumped the case. It was vague and hopeless, like looking for a needle in...
The 15th novel in the bestselling series finds Kinsey Milhone investigating why her ex-husband Mickey, the man she left years ago after his implication in a fatal beating, lies dying in an hospital. Kinsey uncovers evidence that Mickey was innocent of the beating charge, but as she searches those in Mickey`s life, she must also search the blind spots of her own life, including one that hides a killer. A New York Times Notable Book.
In Kinsey Millhone`s 19th excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, a daughter wants the solace of closure in the mystery surrounding her mother`s absence. Thirty-four years earlier, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again.
ISBN: 978-0-425-21269-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
When Kinsey Millhone is asked by a friend to help a family obtain a military funeral for a pilot called Johnny Lee, she soon finds that there was nothing simple about Johnny Lee`s life. Why do the airforce have no record of him? And why is his apartment burgled soon after his death? Then there is the large key which is found. What is it for? What secrets will it unlock? Notes about the life of Sue Grafton; Notes about the story; Points for Understanding comprehension questions; Glossary of difficult vocabulary; Free resources including worksheets, tests and author Data. Retold by John Escott.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-5778-3
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: июль 2011
