B Is for Burglar, Sue Grafton
B Is for Burglar, Sue Grafton
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B Is for Burglar

Author: Sue Grafton

Narrator: Mary Peiffer

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2005

Synopsis

A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks routine... boring. Still, business is slow and even a private investigator has bills to pay, so Kinsey Millhone takes the case.

But this is not routine and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get. The client tries to call Kinsey off, an accusing husband surfaces and a double murder turns the case sinister. Kinsey feels adrift in a fog of distortion, where nothing - except danger - is quite what it seems.

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 Jilly on March 02, 2019

Since this book was published a year before this little gem: Yes. "Accidentally".... The book is oddly compelling. There is all of this strange stuff that was probably not strange at all during the time it came out. Like Kinsey's obsession with jogging. It seemed like that might have been a thing back......more

Goodreads review by Fátima on August 02, 2023

Algures em 2021, quando não andava com muita vontade de ler, peguei no livro C de Cadáver e fiquei interessada na história e na leitura e bastante agradada com a protagonista. Pensei que era o único livro da série editado por cá e achei que era uma pena, pois uma jovem mulher detetive não se vê todo......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on August 25, 2022

Since I now have all 25 books (sadly Grafton passed before #26), and have read them all out of order, I decided that this would be the year to reread them all in order as a way to satisfy my obsessive-compulsive tendencies. The novel, B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton is a murder mystery, part of the......more

Goodreads review by James on September 14, 2019

Review 3.5 stars but I'm going to round down (since I sometimes round up for this author, and I suppose this makes it balance out a bit!) for the second book in the "Kinsey Millhone" [cozy] mystery series by Sue Grafton. In B is for Burglar, we get to know Kinsey more, figuring out what s......more

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