A Is for Alibi, Sue Grafton
A Is for Alibi, Sue Grafton
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A Is for Alibi

Author: Sue Grafton

Narrator: Mary Peiffer

Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2005

Synopsis

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. Plenty of people had reason to want him dead. But the police thought his wife Nikki--with motive, access and opportunity--was the #1 suspect. The jury thought so too.

Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki hires Kinsey Millhone, a gutsy P.I., to find the read killer. The trail is cold but Kinsey finds a lead. It brings her face-to-face with the murderer.

This is the first in the popular series featuring California investigator Kinsey Millhone. She's 32, twice divorced, no kids, an ex-cop who likes her work... and who works strictly alone.

About Sue Grafton

A contemporary American author of detective novels, Sue Taylor Grafton, was born in Louisville, Kentucky as the daughter of another detective novelist, C. W. Grafton. Even though her father had an influence, she has commented that her biggest influence came from author Ross MacDonald.

Sue received her bachelor's degree from University of Louisville in English literature, humanities, and fine art. Upon graduation, Sue worked as a hospital admissions clerk, cashier, and medical secretary. She wrote several novels that were not successful.

After moving into writing screenplays for television, Sue became interested in novels that carried a central theme through each title. She saw a book that alphabetized methods of murder, and immediately started writing what became her best-known works, "the alphabet novels". Each story is set around a fictional California town based on Santa Barbara. The novels are written from the perspective of a female investigator. After her G novel, Grafton was able to devote all of her time to writing her novels. She has given many refusals to those who wanted to buy her novels from which to make movies. She has no desire to work with Hollywood.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on July 27, 2017

Review 4 stars to A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton, the first book in the Kinsey Millhone private investigator cozy mystery series. It's the book that started it all for me... The opening lines of the book grab you when the narrator tells you that she killed a man. You want to know more about......more

Goodreads review by Jilly on February 27, 2019

Wait, should I shelved this in "Historical Fiction"? So, yeah, you can call me a trend-setter. I'm up on the hip scene of today. I know what is cool... or as you kids might say, I'm DTF. (That means Definitely Trendy and Fresh, right?) Oh, I'm sure you are wrong Inigo Montoya. I'm very fleek and shit......more

Goodreads review by Francesc on April 29, 2022

Lo leí con ganas de descubrir a una autora con mucho renombre y me quedé un poco desilusionado. No fue una lectura muy convincente. Creo que, personalmente, leo pocas novelas de escritoras. No es por nada. Tal vez me dejo llevar por la inercia y no caen en mis manos. Debo mejorar. I read it with the des......more

Goodreads review by Ed on May 19, 2019

For some dumb reason, I've been reading Sue Grafton's wonderful alphabet mystery series out of order. At any rate, A is what got them all started, and it's a corker of a story. I like Kinsey: tough, relentless, and empathetic. Hopefully, I'll return to the series very soon. They're addictive in a ma......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on September 19, 2009

I read this book as part of an interdisciplinary course in law school entitled "Law in Literature." While the book was acceptable/average in terms of its overall plot, development, and color, my enjoyment of the novel came from the fact that until the last half of the book (when the protagonist - a......more

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