A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series, 1)

Product Information

At first I thought maybe I would try reading a couple of her books before I made a decision, but I don't think I could make it through another book of this caliber. I’d never really met her but I’d been present at her trial eight years before when she was convicted of murdering her husband, Laurence, a prominent divorce attorney here in town. Because Nikki had been convicted by a jury who purportedly weighed the evidence presented by both the prosecuting and defense attorneys, she wasn't expecting to discover any new evidence. Lorelei King's screen credits include Notting Hill, Martha Meets Frank, Daniel and Laurence , Cold Feet and Chef . I was happy and a little surprised at how much I enjoyed rereading 'A is for Alibi' after so many years.

using plenty of 'shoe leather' and interviewing all of the people in Laurence Fife and Libby Glass's life at the time of their murders. She's a twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments but with a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. He was taking medication for numerous allergies and before he went to bed, he downed his usual capsule.My rating started out at a solid 3 Stars (which is about as good as it gets from me when it comes to a light mystery like this). We get an intimate look into her mind as she interviews the suspects and slowly unravels the mystery. The first 130 pages detail lots of backstory, interviewing everyone and his/her mother, and pretty much anything that had nothing to do with the mystery. Although I like pretty much anything with a bit of mystery, I really like those strong, female heroines like VI Warshawski and Temperance Brennan, so I don't quite know why it's taken me this long to discover Sue Grafton's detective Kinsey Millhone.

Kinsey is a tough, twice-divorced, former cop with her own detective agency situated adjacent to an insurance company in Santa Teresa, California. Kinsey doesn't really surface any evidence, nor does she glean anything really important from all her interviews. While the book was acceptable/average in terms of its overall plot, development, and color, my enjoyment of the novel came from the fact that until the last half of the book (when the protagonist - a female detective - sleeps with a man she is investigating) I hadn't realized that the main character was a woman. Certainly, as you might expect, a story set in 1982 which was years before the explosion of the technological advances we now enjoy DOES feel dated in some ways.

afterall, if someone were trying to establish she was there, wouldn't fingerprinting be further down the road from eyewitness accounts and paper records? The novel concludes with Kinsey looking forward to her next case, ready to face whatever challenges come her way. A" Is for Alibi is the first mystery novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series, and was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1982. In the " Local Ad" episode of The Office, Phyllis goes to a Sue Grafton book signing at the mall to try to get her to be in the Dunder-Mifflin Scranton branch commercial.