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A bitter divorce and custody battle led Sue Grafton to fantasize about ways to eliminate her former husband. Thankfully, she found a way to constructively express her feelings through writing. A is for Alibi was released in 1982, introducing a chronological set of mystery novels known as the alphabet series. The award-winning mystery writer has completed twenty-two books in the series, the most recent being V is for Vengeance. Her stories are written from the perspective of female private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, who lives in the fictional town of Santa Teresa, California. The stories are set in the 1980s and don't necessarily need to be read in chronological order, though I did read them in order the first time around. Now at work on the twenty-third book in the series, Sue Grafton enjoys an international readership in the millions. With just four books to go in the series, Sue Grafton has fans wondering which crime-related word she'll choose for the letter W.

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Inspired by Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey (1925-2000)

Long fascinated by mysteries with related titles, Sue Grafton was inspired by Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabetical picture book in which children meet their demise through a variety of nefarious circumstances. She decided to create her own series of novels based on the alphabet, and compiled a list of all the crime-related words she could come up with. The resulting novels became her best known works.

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The Gashlycrumb Tinies

by Edward Gorey

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs
B is for Basil assaulted by bears
C is for Clara who wasted away
D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh
E is for Ernest who choked on a peach
F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech
G is for George smothered under a rug
H is for Hector done in by a thug ...

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The Gashlycrumb Tinies

by Edward Gorey

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

by: Edward Gorey

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V is for Vengeance

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V is for Vengeance

V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)

V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)

by: Sue Grafton

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Since 1982, when A is for Alibi was published, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has only aged five years. Her world in the fictional town of Santa Teresa, California is free of cell phones and the Internet. This is the 22nd installment of Sue Grafton's popular series.

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G is for Gumshoe 

A is for Alibi, B is for Burglar, C is for Corpse, D is for Deadbeat, E is for Evidence

by Sue Grafton

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H is for Homicide 

F is for Fugitive, G is for Gumshoe, H is for Homicide, I is for Innocent, J is for Judgment

by Sue Grafton

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I is for Innocent 

K is for Killer, L is for Lawless, M is for Malice, N is for Noose, O is for Outlaw

by Sue Grafton

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J is for Judgment 

P is for Peril, Q is for Quarry, R is for Ricochet, S is for Silence, T is for Trespass

by Sue Grafton

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I must credit George RR Martin with a salutary breakthrough in my reading habits, but I might just as easily credit (or blame) Sara Paretsky, or Patricia Cornwell, or PD James, or Sue Grafton, or Faye Kellerman, or John Mortimer.
Review: "Breakdown" by Sara Paretsky
Along with Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone and Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, Paretsky's VI showed that women could be private detectives as capable and as determined to fight for justice as any man. In "Breakdown," VI heads to a cemetery in the middle ...
Latest detective tales stick to proven formulae
By Gillian Vine on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 The quality of long-running series tends to bob up and down and so it is with the detective tales by American novelists Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton. Each is hooked to a central character: bounty hunter Stephanie ...
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... The Sisters, by Nancy Jensen; The Stranger's Child, by Alan Hollinghurst; A Trick of Light, by Louise Penny; Trick of the Dark, by Val McDermid; V is for Vengeance, by Sue Grafton; We the Animals, by Justin Torres; Zero Day, by David Baldacci.
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