Sue Grafton is best known for the Alphabet series of crime novels featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Beginning with A Is for Alibi, the books follow Kinsey through murder investigations, missing-person cases and family secrets in the fictional California town of Santa Teresa. Set mainly in the 1980s, the series keeps its detective largely outside later digital technology: Kinsey relies on interviews, public records, surveillance and persistent legwork rather than internet searches. The books can generally be read as individual mysteries, though details of Kinsey's past and relationships accumulate across the sequence through Y Is for Yesterday. Grafton's style is direct and procedural, with a dry first-person voice and relatively little melodrama. The Alphabet books are especially useful for readers seeking private-eye fiction with a female investigator, an 1980s setting and traditional legwork; Sara Paretsky and Marcia Muller are close neighbouring authors. Read more Less
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