Review: A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1) by Sue Grafton

4 stars for A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone book 1) by Sue Grafton.

I am happy, no, scratch that, I am elated to have discovered the start of yet another - good plot, great writing - mystery series.

Kinsey Millhone is now my latest kick-ass detective. For a private investigator with a no-nonsense attitude, one who owns few personal belongings and even fewer personal attachments, surprisingly, Kinsey comes across very much alive; a real life character. To quote "You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself". How philosophical..

Judging from the way the author chooses to title her books, I can say with absolute certainty that there will be at least another twenty-five more books to go before the curtain comes down on this alphabet series; definitely a discovery worth rejoicing. Yay!


Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition
Publication date: 29 Nov 2005

*** Favourite quote 1 ***

Time had shredded the facts like a big machine, leaving only slender paper threads with which to reconstruct reality.

*** Favourite quote 2 ***

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

~ A is for Alibi
Sue Grafton

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When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access, and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. The jury thought so too.

Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.

A trail that is eight years cold. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter, wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively loyal to a dead partner—and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to an ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely—and still angry over Fife's betrayal of her; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few skills—and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include every turn until it finally twists back on itself with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder.

*Blurb from author's website*

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