M Is For Malice, Sue Grafton
M Is For Malice, Sue Grafton
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M Is For Malice

Author: Sue Grafton

Narrator: Judy Kaye

Abridged: 3 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/06/2004

Synopsis

Kinsey Millhone's latest client is Malek Construction, a $40 million company still in family hands. It doesn't take an accountant to see that the four Malek brothers stand to inherit a fortune. But one of the brothers has been missing for 18 years, and Kinsey's assignment is to find him.

The stock of family memories is filled with nothing but bitterness, and the prodigal son will find no comfort at the Malek table. If there's one thing that goes hand in hand with bad blood, it's murder -- and that's just around the corner.

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 April 04, 2019

I kind of felt sorry for Kinsey in this one. The story starts with her being depressed because she is a pathetic loser with no one who loves her and will die alone, childless, with nobody to mourn her. She's so unloved that she will be one of those people who dies and nobody even notices until the s......more

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai on March 16, 2020

This book fell at the last hurdle. It lacked the je ne sais quoi that characterises a mystery elaborately written in 3 acts. I thought that the list of suspects was promising for the suspense, the puzzle, and the mystique of our main character Kinsey Millhone. Suffice to say that the book did not disa......more

Goodreads review by James on June 08, 2017

Book Review 4 out of 5 stars to M is for Malice, the 13th book in the "Kinsey Millhone" mystery series, written in 1996 by Sue Grafton. When I first picked up this book, as I was far behind in the series and not able to read them as they were published, I got very excited. My favorite typ......more

Goodreads review by Baba on December 01, 2022

Kinsey Millhone mystery No. 12: A multi-million dollar inheritance is up for grabs amongst four brothers. One of the brothers went missing over 18 years ago, and Kinsey has been hired to find him... which leads to murder! The latter books in this series are better reads that the first ten or so, and......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on May 09, 2023

M is for Malice is the 13th of the Kinsey Millhone books written by Sue Grafton. In this novel, Kinsey is hired by her cousin to find a missing person. Malek Construction is a lucrative company that has lost its CEO. Three of his sons stand to inherit a large chunk of money, but the fourth brother i......more

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