The A -Y of Mysteries - Sarah Nicholson
Sue Grafton, born in Kentucky in 1940, was the daughter of mystery novelist C. W. Grafton and she decided to write her own series of mystery novels because these were the books she had been raised on. "The mystery novel offers a world in which justice is served. Maybe not in a court of law," she has said, "but people do get their just desserts." She created her protagonist Kinsey Millhone in the late seventies and freely admits she is her alter-ego. “a thinner, younger, braver version of herself, living a life she may have led had she not married and had children at a young age.” “She is a marvel for which I take only partial credit, though she probably claims all the credit for me.” Millhone, 32-year-old, twice divorced licensed PI, started solving crime in the fictional city Santa Theresa California in 1980 in the first book of the series “A is for Alibi”. Grafton made a conscious decision that Kinsey should age one year for every two and a ha...