D Is for Deadbeat, Sue Grafton
D Is for Deadbeat, Sue Grafton
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D Is for Deadbeat

Author: Sue Grafton

Narrator: Judy Kaye

Abridged: 2 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2005


Synopsis

He calls himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he has for Kinsey is cut-and-dried: locate a kid who's done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. Stiffed for the retainer, Kinsey finds out Limardo's real name is John Daggett...ex-con, ex-liar, ex-alchy, currently dead.

The cops call it an accident but Kinsey differs. Look at his life! A lot of people hated him, from much-abused wives, to drug dealers out big money, to the families of five people he killed driving drunk. In short, Daggett wasn't popular.

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

Book Review 3.5 of 5 stars (rounded up!) to D is for Deadbeat. In this installment, Kinsey's rattled when a mysterious man asks her to deliver $25K to someone who turns out to be a teenager. Shortly after the check he gave Kinsey for her own fee bounces and the guy turns up dead. Cut her......more

Goodreads review by Baba

Kinsey Millhone case No. 4: It starts off with Kinsey just having to deliver a check for a client, and becomes much more when the client not only does not pay Kinsey for her services, but also ends up dead! With a deadbeat, domestic abusing, drunk driving killer client hiring Kinsey and drawing her......more

Since I resolved to begin and complete several series this year, I thought that I could try reading Sue Grafton’s alphabet series along with a few others. Over the course of the years, I have read several out of sequence and always found the thought of reading them in sequence a fun prospect that ap......more

Goodreads review by Ed

This is my thirteenth Sue Grafton mystery that I've read. So, I'm more than halfway done with the series. LOL. And what a marvelous private eye series it is. She develops her characters with care. Her plots tend to be a bit grittier than cozy mysteries are. However, her private eye persists, a good......more


Quotes

"Bright, brisk and  thoroughly engaging." -- The Washington  Post.