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Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940) is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she has said the strongest influence on her crime novels is author Ross Macdonald. Prior to success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Sue Grafton is the daughter of novelist C. W. Grafton and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of Presbyterian ministers. Grafton and her sister Ann were raised in Louisville.
She attended both the University of Louisville (freshman year) and Western Kentucky State Teachers College (sophomore and junior years) before graduating from the University of Louisville in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in English Literature and minors in humanities and fine arts. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi.
After graduating, Grafton worked as a hospital admissions clerk, a cashier, and a medical secretary in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California.
Grafton began writing when she was 18 and finished her first novel four years later. She continued writing and completed six more manuscripts. Two of these seven novels were published. Unable to find success with her novels, Grafton turned to screenplays. Grafton worked for the next 15 years writing screenplays for television movies, including Sex and the Single Parent, Mark, I Love You, and Nurse. Her screenplay for Walking Through the Fire earned a Christopher Award in 1979. In collaboration with her husband, Steven Humphrey, she also adapted the Agatha Christie novels A Caribbean Mystery and Sparkling Cyanide for television as well as co-writing Killer in the Family and Love on the Run. She is also credited with the story upon which the screenplay for the made for TV movie Svengali (1983) was based.
Her experience as a screenwriter taught her the basics of structuring a story, writing dialogue, and creating action sequences. Grafton then felt ready to return to writing fiction. While going through a "bitter divorce and custody battle that lasted 6 long years," Grafton imagined ways to kill or maim her ex-husband. Her fantasies were so vivid that she decided to write them down.
She had long been fascinated by mysteries that had related titles, including those by John D. MacDonald, whose titles referenced colors, and Harry Kemelman, who used days of the week. While reading Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabetical picture book of children who die by various means, she had the idea to write a series of novels based on the alphabet. She immediately sat down and made a list of all of the crime-related words that she knew.
This exercise led to her best-known works, a chronological series of mystery novels. Known as "the alphabet novels," the stories are set in and around the fictional town of Santa Teresa, California. It is based on Santa Barbara, outside of which Grafton maintains a home in the suburb of Montecito. (Grafton chose to use the name Santa Teresa as a tribute to the author Ross Macdonald, who had used it as a fictional name for Santa Barbara in his own novels.)
In the series, Grafton writes from the perspective of a female private investigator named Kinsey Millhone, who lives in Santa Teresa. In apparent tribute to Macdonald, Millhone refers to her private investigator license as a "photostat," as did Macdonald's character Archer. Grafton's first book of this series is "A" Is for Alibi, written and set in 1982. The series continues with "B" Is for Burglar, "C" Is for Corpse, and so on through the alphabet. After the publication of "G" Is for Gumshoe, Grafton was able to quit her screenwriting job and focus on her novels.
The timeline of the series is slower than real time. "Q" Is for Quarry, for example, is set in 1987, even though it was written in 2002. "T" Is for Trespass was released in December 2007 and "U is for Undertow" was released on December 1, 2009. Grafton has publicly stated that the final novel in the series will be titled "Z" Is for Zero.
Grafton's novels have been published in 28 countries and in 26 languages, including Bulgarian and Indonesian. She has refused to sell the film and television rights to her books, as her time writing screenplays had "cured" her of the desire to work with Hollywood. Grafton has also threatened to haunt her children if they sell the film rights after she is dead.
About author and audiobooks:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Grafton |
Kinsey Millhone Series
Sue Grafton - "A" Is For Alibi (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "B" Is For Burglar (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "C" Is For Corpse (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "D" Is For Deadbeat (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "E" Is For Evidence (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "F" Is For Fugitive (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "G" Is For Gumshoe (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "H" Is For Homicide (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "I" Is For Innocent (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "J" Is For Judgement (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "K" Is For Killer (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "L" Is For Lawless (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "M" Is For Malice (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "N" Is For Noose (read by Mary Peiffer)
Sue Grafton - "O" Is For Outlaw (read by Judy Kaye)
Sue Grafton - "P" Is For Peril (read by Judy Kaye)
Sue Grafton - "Q" Is For Quarry (read by Judy Kaye)
Sue Grafton - "R" Is For Ricochet (read by Judy Kaye)
Sue Grafton - "S" Is For Silence (read by Judy Kaye)
Sue Grafton - "T" Is For Trespass (read by Judy Kaye)
Sue Grafton - "U" Is For Undertow (read by Judy Kaye)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/a64ddc2ef3e079ac25bfacb7aefbfdd6/A_Is_For_Alibi.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/946b93084adb6f76f26acaf9750670de/B_Is_For_Burglar.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/00ddc56b47051344020689f69948c752/C_Is_For_Corpse.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/847aef8c57546a0204ee0d99633d3a1b/D_Is_For_Deadbeat.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5fb79440de2221b742a4db232e954988/E_Is_For_Evidence.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/239d320d56463abc7b498d3b108438d4/F_Is_For_Fugitive.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/578fac9187e65e712ad92d6d1f5499b6/G_Is_For_Gumshoe.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7a9fbf32a5a608ec77d038b3699e6ca4/H_Is_For_Homicide.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/756607eb5b0c1cc1ccaab41863c11eac/I_Is_For_Innocent.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f7a0ef498023ee9607d01439bd5c5689/J_Is_For_Judgement.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c4a8b639cacb5f2bfce0262a8cafbdf9/K_Is_For_Killer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f8410426a7bc279b7bfc4070479ef4e7/L_Is_For_Lawless.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a9d80eb5c923454801c41f8c9d9d5b04/M_Is_For_Malice.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6c199717ecc4012fc355933ddec21781/N_Is_For_Noose.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cdc37b1bf5154a28913bbb0cee98b8c3/O_Is_For_Outlaw.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/436239ce30251a30890132a7a3d6d5e1/P_Is_For_Peril.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f4ecd604e5785ef02589816f6efdb9f9/Q_Is_For_Quarry.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a5a26fb30b4a9b3e16585cbad27bc1a2/R_Is_For_Ricochet.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f20c10ad762c44c6d6480167c90e798f/S_Is_For_Silence.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/085a30d3723e2aa5805fc1f24f67a359/T_Is_For_Trespass.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/91832286eb3db04d2420de264c7fae99/U_Is_For_Undertow.rar.html |
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