Who knows what Sue Grafton will do when she writes her twenty seventh book, but so far she is been doing a great job of making the alphabet a lot more exciting and interesting. Alongside Sara Paretsky and Marcia Muller, she was in the vanguard of a troop of female crime writers in the 1980s and so far she has lasted the course extremely well, as has her heroine, feisty and resourceful private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Born in Santa Teresa, California (a fictional version of Santa Barbara borrowed from Ross Macdonald), and orphaned when she was five, Kinsey joined the local police department, but left after two years, due to their attitude towards women and bureaucratic constraints. After two brief and unsuccessful marriages, she became a private investigator, going freelance after a couple of years. On its alphabetical progression, the series has consistently developed and Kinsey has also evolved. As her cases become darker and more violent, she is shaped by her increasingly sinister experiences, and so her personality grows more complex and intriguing.

In A is for Alibi she is investigating the murder of Laurence Fife, a successful, ruthless divorce attorney and ladies' man, who was killed eight years ago. The woman hiring her is the dead man's widow, who has just been paroled after spending those eight years inside for supposedly killing the man she loved. Now she wants Kinsey to find the real killer and the intrepid sleuth has to strip away the lies of the past and uncover some very nasty secrets in her bid to learn the truth. Rearing their ugly heads along the way are adultery, deceit and murder, including another eight-year-old killing and also one that is much more recent. Sharp and smart, tender as well as tough, Kinsey is a totally convincing and compelling character and, as for the series featuring her, there really is no better place to start than here.

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