Kinsey and me

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I'm a priváté investigator . . . That Monday morning, I was sitting in my office with myfeet up, wondering ívhat life would bring, when a woman walked in and tossed a photograph on my desk. 'Somebody killed my husband.'
Thirty-one years since A is for Alibi was first published, Sue Grafton presents Kinsey and Me, 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 freedomvwas that very parental distance . . .
Kit walked through the empty house, listening to her footsteps resounding against the pale deadjloors the house was being sold . . . all of life, everything was breaking apart, breaking down, being levelled,... Tovább

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I'm a priváté investigator . . . That Monday morning, I was sitting in my office with myfeet up, wondering ívhat life would bring, when a woman walked in and tossed a photograph on my desk. 'Somebody killed my husband.'
Thirty-one years since A is for Alibi was first published, Sue Grafton presents Kinsey and Me, 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 freedomvwas that very parental distance . . .
Kit walked through the empty house, listening to her footsteps resounding against the pale deadjloors the house was being sold . . . all of life, everything was breaking apart, breaking down, being levelled, destroyed, razed, rendered obsolete, that childhood, that life, that family as odd and unhappy as it had been.
This dazzling and often moving collection displays the depth and rangé of Grafton's writing and reminds us of her unique talent as a storyteller.
'Terrific . . . The Kinsey stories and the Kit stories together open a window into Grafton's sóul' USA Today
'The Millhone pieces are sparkling little gems . . . The Kit Blue stories are the book's dark heart' Chicago Tribute Vissza