G Is for Gumshoe, Sue Grafton
G Is for Gumshoe, Sue Grafton
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G Is for Gumshoe

Author: Sue Grafton

Narrator: Judy Kaye

Abridged: 2 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2005

Synopsis

A Kinsey Millhone mystery. . .

Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list. It's the last that convinces Kinsey even she can't handle whoever's been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey's body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it's over, she'll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . .

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 September 22, 2017

Book Review 3.5 of 5 stars for G is for Gumshoe, the 7th installment in the "Kinsey Millhone" mystery series, written in 1990 by Sue Grafton. Another good book in the series, this one offers an opportunity for Kinsey to partner with someone else -- this time to save her own life. Kinsey's......more

Goodreads review by Jilly on March 17, 2019

Sometimes when I review a book, I don't feel like I have a lot to say, so I consider just writing a simple sentence or not even reviewing at all, but just giving a rating. Sometimes, there just isn't much to be said. Janet obviously struggled here, but what else is there to be said in this case? But,......more

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai on August 11, 2020

For the first time in this series, I voiced the word 'epic' in my mind when I finished reading this book. My memories however, are starting to fade. I don't know how much of that is because of my mind, and how much is due to the book itself. But it was engrossing to read about the trail that Kinsey Mi......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on March 24, 2023

As part of my goals for this year, I am reading all of the Sue Grafton alphabet series novels. The seventh book in the series is G is for Gumshoe. In this novel, Kinsey Millhone is turning 33. She is hired to check up on a senior citizen who the daughter has been unable to contact. Kinsey must go to......more

Goodreads review by Emma on November 05, 2018

4.5 stars. Very exciting one as Kinsey has a price on her head. This is a story with new beginnings of more than one kind.......more

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