Kinsey Millhone Mysteries Omnibuses by Sue Grafton (.ePUB)
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Kinsey Millhone Mysteries Omnibuses (A-F, G-L, M-R, S-Y) by Sue Grafton
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Overview: Grafton turned her attention to mystery writing after she became disenchanted with the Hollywood system.
The first novel, released in 1982, was titled A Is for Alibi, and it introduced Kinsey Millhone, a tough-as-nails private investigator based in the fictional California city of Santa Teresa (modeled on Santa Barbara). Along with fellow detective novelist Sara Paretsky (whose first novel featuring female private investigator V.I. Warshawski came out the same year), Grafton was credited with upending the chauvinism that had been a defining quality of hard-boiled fiction, in which female characters were frequently powerless victims or vicious femme fatales.
Grafton’s protagonist instead took inspiration from the flinty male heroes of Dashiell Hammett and Philip Marlowe. Millhone was unrelenting in her pursuit of the truth, and she existed on the periphery of society, valuing solitude and self-definition above all. Far from reliant on men, she extricated herself from most of the dangerous situations in which she ended up, on occasion by use of lethal violence. She pointedly eschewed fashion and domesticity, preferring an ascetic lifestyle enlivened mainly by work, exercise, and an array of salty colloquialisms. Grafton was lauded for her realistic, flawed heroine and for the assiduous research she did in constructing the crimes that Millhone investigated. She noted publicly that she considered Millhone her alter ego.
Kinsey Millhone books often examine social issues, among them wrongful conviction, kidnapping, physical and sexual abuse, vigilante justice, identity theft, and homelessness. X (2015), about Millhone’s efforts to find a serial killer, was the first entry in the series to feature only a letter in the title. Y Is for Yesterday (2017), the 25th book in the series, was published just months before Grafton’s death.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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