'My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator ...female, single and self-employed, with a constitutional inability to work for anyone else. I'm a purist when it comes to justice, but I'll lie at the drop of a hat. Inconsistency has never troubled me ...' It was late October, the day before Halloween. He introduced himself as Alvin Limardo. The job he hired Kinsey to do seemed easy enough ...until his cheque bounced. His real name was Dagett. John Dagett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident -- death by drowning. Kinsey wasn't so sure. The man, it seemed, had a lot of enemies ...'Heart-pounding, totally mesmerizing suspense' New York Times.
Biography
New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton is published in twenty-eight countries and twenty-six languages--including Estonian, Bulgarian, and Indonesian. Books in her alphabet series, begun in 1982, are international bestsellers with readership in the millions. And like Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, Grafton has earned new respect for the mystery form. Readers appreciate her buoyant style, her eye for detail, her deft hand with character, her acute social observances, and her abundant storytelling prowess. She has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America (2009) and is a recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award (2004).
Sue Grafton has been married to Steve Humphrey for more than thirty years, and they divide their time between Montecito, California, and Louisville, Kentucky, where she was born and raised. Grafton, who has three children and four grandchildren, loves cats, gardens, and good cuisine.
Tác giả Sue Grafton có một seri truyện trinh thám rất nổi tiếng được đặt tựa đề theo các ký tự trong bảng chữ cái. Kể về nhân vật Kinsey Millhone, một điều tra viên tư nhân và Kinsey bị kết án về tội danh giết chồng - Lawrence Fife. Cô bắt tay vào tìm hiểu hung thủ thực sự đã giết anh ấy. Việc điều tra của Kinsey đã dẫn dắt cô ấy đi suốt hành trình để tìm ra manh mối và đưa sự thật ra ánh sáng.
