S Is For Silence, Sue Grafton
S Is For Silence, Sue Grafton
135 Rating(s)
List: $22.48 | Sale: $15.74
Club: $11.24

S Is For Silence
A Kinsey Millhone Mystery

Author: Sue Grafton

Narrator: Judy Kaye

Unabridged: 12 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2005


Synopsis

S is for silence: the silence of the lost, the silence of the grave, the silence of oblivion.

Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy that she left behind, her absence has never been explained or forgotten.

Now, thirty-four years later, she wants the solace of closure.

In S IS FOR SILENCE, Kinsey Millhone's nineteenth excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, S is for surprises as Sue Grafton takes a whole new approach to telling the tale. And S is for superb: Kinsey and Grafton at their best.

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 13, 2017

Book Review 4 out of 5 stars to S is for Silence, the 19th book in the "Kinsey Millhone" mystery series, written in 2005 by Sue Grafton. This is a top-notch installment in the series, proving why Grafton is so good at inventing characters who stick with you and never get boring. Kinsey t......more

Goodreads review by Jilly on April 23, 2019

The best part of this book was that there was an alternate POV story going on in between Kinsey's relentless rambling. I was so happy for the break from her describing the crap out of everything she saw that I almost did a happy dance. But, then I remembered what happened the last time I did a happy......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on March 15, 2023

S is for Silence is a unique addition to the Sue Grafton alphabet series starring Kinsey Millhone. This is #19, a missing person cold case, but that's not the unique part. Grafton has done cold cases before. Here, she breaks with the first-person mode of storytelling to flashback in third-person cer......more

Goodreads review by Tom on October 17, 2019

This book takes on the style reminiscent of a TV show I enjoyed in the mid 2000's titled Cold Case where you were shown snippets from the past when the crime happened interwoven with the current day detectives revisiting the case. Sue Grafton captured that setting in book form very well with giving......more

Goodreads review by Hallie on May 22, 2014

By far and away my least favourite of the Kinsey Millhone books. (All right, to be honest, I have only the vaguest of memories of all except the last. Still, I can't believe that I'd have read all those other books if they'd been like this one.) This had problems in several ways, and probably just o......more