Sue Grafton ABC Gift Collection
"A" Is for Alibi, "B" Is for Burglar, "C" Is for Corpse

I've avoided Kinsey Millhone until now because I thought she might be a little cozy, but these first three entries hit the ground running as solid PI stories with a good cast of characters in each and some perfectly acceptable plotting. I might have been half a beat ahead of Kinsey in the final thir......more

Oldie But a goodie. How did they do anything before cell phones? Quite well I guess. Working my way through the alphabet.......more

I read and reviewed the three books collected here separately, so this is basically for my own records. I rated them all as three stars, so the collected rating is (easily) the same. Looking at them as a group, I think I'm struck most by two things. The first is that, as the books go on, I'm increas......more

Kinsey Millhone is witty, cheeky, very VERY descriptive and smart. But that’s who she is, I noticed she gets sidetracked and describes somebody’s long nails and then ends it with an early memory which I actually enjoyed so much (I am that same way) the descriptions made me chuckle at points, and it......more

Reading about a single female detective Kinsey Millhone provided a fresh way for me to see how traditional roles for women have expanded in the last century. The suspense is not great since the solutions come into view without much effort on the part of the reader; however, I found myself intrigued......more