Bøger af Sue Grafton

F IS FOR FLIGHTWhen Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it's hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlake-a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boys-was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped.F IS FOR FEARAfter all this time, Bailey's finally been captured. Believing in his son's innocence, Bailey's father wants Kinsey to find Jean's real killer. But most of the residents in this tight-knit community are convinced Bailey strangled Jean. So why are they so reluctant to answer Kinsey's questions? If there's one thing Kinsey's got plenty of it's persistence. And that's exactly what it's going to take to crack the lid on this case.in to keep the past buried.

Geen enkele speuropdracht die op het bureau van privédetective Kinsey Millhone belandt is een routineklus. Dat geldt ook voor de aanvraag van Beverly Danziger, die op zoek is naar haar vermiste zus, Elaine. Er is haast bij geboden, want Beverly heeft haar nodig om recht te krijgen op een erfenis. Iets klopt er niet, denkt Kinsey. En al gauw lijkt haar wantrouwen te worden bevestigd door een reeks verdachte aanwijzingen... Had de verdwijning van Elaine iets te maken met de moord op een andere speler van de bridgeclub? Was het toeval dat haar waardevolle raskat niet meer terug naar huis was gekomen? De vragen stapelen zich op, met name wanneer het huis van Elaine door een inbreker overhoop wordt gehaald en er nog een bekende wordt vermoord. Maar de prangende vraag blijft... Waar is Elaine? ‘B van bedrog’ is het tweede boek in de populaire Alfabetreeks van New York Times-bestsellerauteur Sue Grafton, met de eigenwijze Kinsey Millhone in de hoofdrol."Ever since Sue Grafton wrote 'A' is for Alibi, we've been hanging over a cliff waiting for the rest of the alphabet letters to shake loose. 'B' is for Burglar is finally here, and it was worth the wait...Grafton tells a good, gripping story...and she does it in a no-sweat style that only looks easy. 'G' is for Grafton. Sue Grafton. Keep that name on file."—Marilyn Stasio, Cleveland Plain Dealer"Millhone is my favorite among the new female private eyes. She's feisty, stubborn, resourceful, guardedly romantic, and willfully practical...she's my kind of loner."—Cryptus, Detroit News

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Alphabet series comes a collection of stories that "combines glimpses of her series detective, Kinsey Millhone, with a revealing self-portrait" (Publishers Weekly).In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced Kinsey Millhone and created an iconic female detective. Here, in a story collection divided into two parts, Sue Grafton provides a glimpse of her own early life in the guise of the character Kit Blue, and enriches our understanding of Kinsey Millhone, one of the spunkiest, smartest, and most entertaining private investigators in all of mystery fiction."Terrific...The Kinsey stories and the Kit stories together open a window into Grafton's soul."-USA Today

A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of this daring Kinsey Millhone mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton.Private detective Kinsey Millhone feels a bit out of place in any department store's lingerie section, but she's entirely in her element when she puts a stop to a brazen shoplifting spree. For her trouble she nearly gets run over in the parking lot by one of the fleeing thieves-and later learns that the one who didn't get away has been found dead in an apparent suicide. But Audrey Vance's grieving fiance suspects murder and hires Kinsey to investigate a case that will reveal a big story behind a small crime and lead her into a web that connects a shadowy "private banker," an angry trophy wife, a spoiled kid with a spiraling addiction, and a brutal killer without a conscience...

Sue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with this twisting, complex #1 New York Times bestseller that draws private investigator Kinsey Millhone into a case shrouded in the sins of the past.Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone's office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure. Now, all these years later, the long-forgotten events have come back to him-and he has pieced them together with news reports from the time, becoming convinced that he witnesses the burial of a kidnapped child.Kinsey has nearly nothing to go on. Sutton doesn't even know where he was that day-and, she soon discovers, he has a history of what might generously be called an active imagination. Despite her doubts, Kinsey sets out to track down the so-called burial site. And what's found there pulls her into a hidden current of deceit stretching back more than twenty years...

Brace yourself for an "ELECTRIFYING and THOROUGHLY SATISFYING" read (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue GraftonM is for MONEY...Malek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction-and one of the few still in family hands. Today, the three Malek sons stand to inherit a fortune, but in order for any one of them to claim his share, the missing fourth brother must be found.M is for MISSING...Now it's up to Kinsey Millhone to find the man who, eighteen years ago, vanished without a trace. Did he run away-or was he abducted? Did he intend to make something of himself on his own, apart from the wealth and prowess of his family, or were his motives something more sinister?M is for MALICEThe ties that bind. The rivalries of brotherhood. The fall of an empire... As Kinsey tries to unravel the mystery of the missing Malek brother she finds herself in a heart-stopping race against time in which loyalties are tested, greed is rampant, and no one-including Kinsey herself-is safe..."Marvelous and memorable." -San Francisco Chronicle

Kinsey Millhone agrees to help Michael Sutton locate a grave he discovered 21 years earlier, but as the investigation unfolds, Kinsey discovers Michael has an uneasy relationship with the truth.

Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her.Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were mysterious: Lorna's body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that they couldn't be certain she hadn't died of natural causes. In the way of overworked cops everywhere, the case was gradually shifted to the back burner and became another unsolved file.Only Lorna's mother kept it alive, consumed by the certainty that somebody out there had gotten away with murder.In the ten months since her daughter's death, Janice Kepler had joined a support group, trying to come to terms with her loss and her anger. It wasn't helping. And so, leaving a session one evening and noticing a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she knocked on the door.In answering that knock, Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the netherworld of unavenged murder, where only a pact with the devil will satisfy the restless ghosts of the victims and give release to the living they have left behind.Eleven books into the series that has won her readers around the world, Sue Grafton takes a darkside turn, pitching us into a shadow land of pain and grief where killers still walk free, unaccused, unpunished, unrepentant. With "K" is for Killer she offers a tale that is dark, complex, and deeply disturbing."A" Is for Alibi"B" Is for Burglar"C" Is for Corpse"D" Is for Deadbeat"E" Is for Evidence"F" Is for Fugitive"G" Is for Gumshoe"H" Is for Homicide"I" Is for Innocent"J" Is for Judgment"K" Is for Killer"L" is for Lawless"M" Is for Malice"N" Is for Noose"O" Is for Outlaw"P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry"R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass"U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton crafts a thriller set in a town so small that P.I. Kinsey Millhone wonders just how private her investigation can be . . . F is for FugitiveFloral Beach wasn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found.The people of floral Beach didn't pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been properly processed and convicted. They weren't even unduly concerned when, a year after the murder, Fowler walked away from the men's prison at San Luis Obispo, never to be seen again. After all, everyone knew Jean had been a wild kid. "Like mother, like daughter," some said--though never within hearing of Shana Timberlake, who, whatever her faults, still mourned her murdered child.And then, by sheer fluke, the cops stumbled on Bailey Fowler. And a case seventeen years dead came murderously to life again.For Royce Fowler, old and sick with not much time left, his son's reappearance was the chance to heal an old wound. For Kinsey Millhone, the case was a long shot, but she agreed to take it on. She couldn't know then it would lead her to probe the passions buried just below the surface of family relations, where old wounds fester and the most cherished emotions become warped until they fuse into deadly, soul-destroying time bombs."A" Is for Alibi"B" Is for Burglar"C" Is for Corpse"D" Is for Deadbeat"E" Is for Evidence"F" Is for Fugitive"G" Is for Gumshoe"H" Is for Homicide"I" Is for Innocent"J" Is for Judgment"K" Is for Killer"L" is for Lawless"M" Is for Malice"N" Is for Noose"O" Is for Outlaw"P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry"R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass"U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"

"SMART AND SASSY" (New York Times) P.I. Kinsey Millhone is at it again in "N" is for Noose-another thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue GraftonKinsey Millhone should have done something else--she should have turned the car in the direction of home. Instead, she was about to put herself in the gravest jeopardy of her career.Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office--a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, smoked too much, and exercised too little. That plus an appetite for junk food made him a poster boy for an American Heart Association campaign. Newquist's widow didn't doubt the coroner's report. But what Selma couldn't accept was not knowing what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life. What was it that had made him prowl restlessly at night, that had him brooding constantly? Selma Newquist wanted closure, and the only way she'd get it was if she found out what it was that had so bedeviled her husband. Kinsey should have dumped the case. It was vague and hopeless, like looking for a needle in a haystack. Instead, she set up shop in Nota Lake, where she found that looking for a needle in a haystack can draw blood. Very likely, her own."N" Is for Noose: a novel in which Kinsey Millhone becomes the target and an entire town seems in for the kill."A" Is for Alibi"B" Is for Burglar"C" Is for Corpse"D" Is for Deadbeat"E" Is for Evidence"F" Is for Fugitive"G" Is for Gumshoe"H" Is for Homicide"I" Is for Innocent"J" Is for Judgment"K" Is for Killer"L" is for Lawless"M" Is for Malice"N" Is for Noose"O" Is for Outlaw"P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry"R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass"U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"

De misdaadroman ‘A van alibi’ is het eerste boek in Graftons spannende Alfabetreeks, waarin de jonge privédetective Kinsey Millhone moordenaars opspoort. Met een passie voor het oplossen van oude moordzaken is ze haar eigen detectivebureau gestart - haar ziel en zaligheid. De hulp van de gewiekste speurder wordt ingeschakeld door Nikki Fife, die acht jaar lang in de gevangenis heeft gezeten voor de moord op haar man. Maar Nikki is onschuldig en vastberaden om de echte dader te pakken te krijgen. Kinsey strijdt met hart en ziel voor gerechtigheid maar de zaak wordt met de minuut grimmiger - helemaal wanneer ze opzienbarende gelijkenissen vindt met een andere oude moordzaak... Lukt het Kinsey om de moordenaar van de man met vele vijanden te achterhalen? Laat je meeslepen door New York Times-bestsellerauteur Sue Grafton en haar bloedstollende moordalfabet. "Kinsey Millhone is smart, sexual, likable and a very modern operator. A pleasure to read."—Dorothy Salisbury Davis"Grafton has created a woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious loner...smart, well paced, and very funny."—Newsweek"The best new private eye."—The Detroit NewsSue Grafton (1940 - 2017) was een beroemde Amerikaanse detectiveschrijfster. Haar populaire Alfabetreeks, die in 1982 begon met ‘A van alibi’, werd wereldwijd een hit. Het was ten tijde van de eerste publicatie bijzonder dat een vrouwelijke detective de hoofdrol had. In de reeks volgt Graftons miljoenenpubliek privédetective Kinsey Millhone die moordzaken probeert op te lossen. Vlak voor haar overlijden in 2017 kwam de laatste misdaadroman in de reeks uit: ‘Y staat voor...’, waarmee Graftons moordalfabet eindigt met de letter Y. De New York Times-bestsellerauteur heeft het hoofdpersonage Kinsey op haar eigen alter ego gebaseerd, een versie van zichzelf als ze niet jong was getrouwd en geen kinderen had gehad. Haar boeken zijn in 29 landen uitgegeven. Bovendien won de schrijfster, naast vele andere prijzen, de Anthony Best Novel Award maar liefst drie keer.