Author's Spotlight: Sue Grafton

Below, in chronological (and alphabetic!) order, are the 20 published novels featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone.  We have all of the Sue Grafton books for rent in audio book format.  Click on the linked title to see more information and our low rental prices.

Sue Grafton published the first in the series in 1983 and has continued at regular intervals for the last 25 years.  The earlier works A - P are available for rent in abridged audiobook format.  Since Q, unabridged audio books are also available for rent.  For more information about Sue Grafton visit her official website. The short synopsis of each novel is taken from that site.

A is for Alibi:  When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer.  Publication Date:  1983

B is for Burglar:  Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone.. Publication Date: 1985

C is for Corpse:  He was young -- maybe twenty or so -- and he must once have been a good-looking kid. Kinsey could see that. But now his body was covered in scars, his face half-collapsed. It saddened Kinsey and made her curious.  Publication Date: 1986

D is for Deadbeat:  He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Publication Date: 1987

E is for Evidence:  It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was bogged down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn't pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erroneous $5,000 deposit in her account. Kinsey had never believed in Santa Claus and she wasn't about to change her mind now. Publication Date: 1988

F is for Fugitive:  Floral Beach wasn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found.  Publication Date: 1989

G is for Gumshoe:  Kinsey is run off the road by a red pickup truck, wrecking her '68 Volkswagen and landing herself in the hospital. Maybe a bodyguard is a good idea after all . . . Enter Robert Dietz, a burnt-out detective, "late forties, five ten, maybe 170, [who arrives in] jeans, cowboy boots, a tweed sport coat with a blue toothbrush protruding from the breast pocket like a ballpoint pen."  Publication Date: 1990

H is for Homicide:  His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity's offices.  Publication Date: 1991

I is for Innocent:  When Kinsey Millhone agrees to take over Morley Shine's investigation, she thinks it is a simple matter of tying up the loose ends. Morley might have been careless about his health, but he was an old pro at the business. So it comes as a real shock when she finds his files in disarray, his key informant less than credible, and his witnesses denying ever having spoken with him.  Publication Date: 1992

J is for Judgment:  J" is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead these past five years. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz. Publication Date: 1993

K is for Killer:  Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her.  Publication Date: 1994

L is for Lawless:  Kinsey's skills are about to be sorely tested. She is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who quite literally take her for the ride of her life.  Publication Date: 1995

M is for Malice:  "M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands.  Publication Date: 1996

N is for Noose:  Kinsey Millhone should have done something else -- she should have turned the car in the direction of home. Instead, she was about to put herself in the gravest jeopardy of her career.  Publication Date: 1998

O is for Outlaw:  The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. The weekend before, he'd bought a stack of cardboard boxes. In one, there was a collection of childhood memorabilia with Kinsey's name all over it. For thirty bucks, he was offering Kinsey the lot.  Publication Date: 1999

P is for Peril:  Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Teresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed contented with his life.  Publication Date: 2001

Q Is For Quarry:  She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on.  Publication Date: 2002

R is for Ricochet:  Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence.  Publication Date: 2004

S is for Silence:  Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display.  She was never seen again.  In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover.  Some said she was murdered by her husband.  But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, Violet's absence has never been explained or forgotten.  Now, thirty-four years later, she wants the solace of closure.  Publication Date:  2006

T is for Trespass:  Solana Rojas is a sociopath.  Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private care giving jobs. Publication Date: 2008

Updated March 2008