Kinsey And Me

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My name is Kinsey Millhone. Im a private investigator licensed bonded insured; white female age thirty-two unmarried & physically fit. That Monday morning I was sitting in my office with my feet up wondering what life would bring when a woman walked in & tossed a photograph on my desk. Somebody killed my husb&. Thirty one years since A is for Alibi was first published Sue Grafton presents Kinsey & 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 Graftons mother died. Together they show just how much Kinsey Millhone is a distillation of her creators past even as they reveal a child who free of parental discipline read everything & roamed everywhere. But the dark side of such freedom was that very parental distance.. . Kit walked through the empty house listening to her footsteps resounding against the pale dead floors.. .the windows stood open to the summer heat & a wind that smelled of lilacs touched at the screens. From her bedroom she could look out into the side yard where the cherry tree had blossomed every April since time began.. . And now the house was being sold & the land their mother was dead their father remarried: all of life everything was breaking apart breaking down being levelled destroyed razed rendered obsolete that childhood that life that family as odd & unhappy as it had been.. . Published in the UK for the first time this dazzling & often moving collection displays the depth & range of Graftons writing & reminds us of her unique talent as a storyteller.