Author

Books by Sue Grafton

Sue Grafton was an American crime novelist best known for the Kinsey Millhone alphabet mystery series, which began with A Is for Alibi in 1982 and ran through Y Is for Yesterday in 2017, the year she died. Grafton had previously written television scripts and two earlier novels before developing Kinsey. She publicly credited her anger at a bitter custody dispute as the creative motivation for writing a female protagonist who solved problems decisively. The alphabet series sold tens of millions of copies and established Grafton alongside Sara Paretsky and Patricia Cornwell as the central figures in the wave of female crime writers who transformed the genre in the 1980s and 1990s.