Twenty-Eight: A IS FOR ALIBI

A is for Alibi, by Sue Grafton, 1982.

       

TTR: one day! MUAHAHAHHAHAHA

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As you might remember from some of my earlier posts, I have an unhealthy fascination with  an ongoing academic and creative writerly interest in female detectives. I wrote my Master's Thesis on them, for heaven's sake. I'm also writing a mystery and a couple of Urban Fantasy novels featuring female leads who solve conundrums of varying severity.

Somehow, despite all of that, I had never read a Sue Grafton novel (or really any semi-modern female detective novels, for that matter). This was a problem I needed to remedy, stat.

So I picked up a used, three novel omnibus of Grafton's work at the local Hastings and started setting things right.

I love Kinsey Millhone. Despite the fact that her character is old enough to be my mother, she is also a relevant and realistic (for the 80s/90s) female P.I. She is tough but still concerned with the things an actual forty-year-old woman might be concerned with. She cares but she also has had enough life experience not to be too touchy-feely or invested in other's lives.

I'm in the middle of reading B is for Burglar right now.