Grafton, Sue

Essential listening for series fans. Detective fiction with similar strong female detectives and fine narrators includes novels by Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Marcia Muller, Laura Lippman, and Sara Paretsky. ["Kinsey's fans may have to take notes to keep up with her as she untangles a web of lies and cover stories to solve the current blackmail case as well as the older murder": Xpress Reviews 7/21/17 review of the Putnam hc. The alphabet might have to end at Y, as Grafton died on December 28, 2017.—Ed.]

Readers of Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski or Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum may enjoy this California sleuthing sister. [See Prepub Alert, 3/23/17.]

As Grafton nears the end of her long-running alphabet series, readers of mystery and suspense and Grafton's many fans will delight in and savor this latest addition.

Along with regular followers of Grafton's series, fans of mysteries and short stories will enjoy this collection.

Kinsey plays a smaller role in this story, which may not please some of her many fans, but Grafton's pioneering sleuth is as clever and witty as ever. [See Prepub Alert, 5/2/11.]