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A.K.A. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton – A Quick Review.
My desire to reread this book has nothing to do with the clever reference from Reaper this past week. Rather, I have felt the need to go back and reread all of the mystery series that I love.
A is for Alibi is the first of the series that has come to be known as the Alphabet Mysteries. It finds heroine, Kinsey Millhone investigating the murder of a prominent divorce lawyer, whose been dead 8 years. Her client? The wife of the lawyer who was convicted for his murder and has just been released having served her time.
Kinsey is another one of those hardboiled female detectives that came out in the 1980s. Unlike V.I., she has not been bought by Hollywood and made into a bad movie, because Sue Grafton was a screenwriter and knows exactly what that big bad town does to books it buys. Grafton has stated that she will not let that happen to Kinsey.
This book is well written and moves along quite quickly. This book, despite having been published in 1983 has aged very well. It could have been written today, except for the lack of cellphones and email.
Overall a great read.