Kinsey and MeSue GraftonLabel: Pan BooksDescription: My name is Kinsey Millhone. I’m a private investigator licensed bonded insured; white female age thirty-two unmarried and physically fit. That Monday morning I was sitting in my office with my feet up wondering what life would bring when a woman walked in and tossed a photograph on my desk. 'Somebody killed my husband.' Published thirty one years after A is for Alibi Sue Grafton's Kinsey and Me is her first compendium of short stories. It features nine Kinsey Millhone short stories each a gem of detection as well as autobiographical pieces written in the decade after Grafton's mother died. Together they show just how much Kinsey Millhone is a distillation of her creator’s past even as they reveal a child who free of parental discipline read everything and roamed everywhere. But the dark side of such freedom was that very parental distance . . .This dazzling and often moving collection displays the depth and range of Grafton’s writing and reminds us of her unique talent as a storyteller.
