There are 25 books in the Kinsey Millhone series. The newest book is Y Is For Yesterday which came out in 2017.

`My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator, licensed by the state of California. I'm thirty-two years old, twice divorced, no kids. The day before yesterday I killed someone and the fact weighs heavily on my mind . . .'

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. A slick…

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B Is for Burglar

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`Female, age thirty-two, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhone, private investigator, only one thing stays the same. When a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what's going to happen next . . .'

There was nothing about Beverly Danziger…

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C is for Corpse

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Winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel, C is for Corpse is the third in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a licensed private investigator . . . thirty-two, twice divorced. I like being alone and I suspect that my independence…

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D Is for Deadbeat

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`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 . . .'…

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E Is for Evidence

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`Anyone who knows me will tell you that I cherish my unmarried state. I'm female, twice divorced, no kids and no close family ties. I'm perfectly content to do what I do...'

It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five…

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F is for Fugitive

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F is for Fugitive is the sixth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm thirty-two years old, twice married, no kids, currently unattached and likely to remain so given my disposition, which is cautious at best . . .

Seventeen years had…

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G Is for Gumshoe

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The repairs were completed on her apartment, and she moved back in. She was hired by Mrs Clyde Gersh to bring her mother back from the Mojave Desert.

And lastly, a real surprise. The news that she'd made one of the top slots on Tyrone Patty's hit list . .…

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H Is for Homicide

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What she needed most was a few quiet days by herself - but two things happened to change her plans. First she ran into a murder case. Then Kinsey met Bibianna Diaz, and before the night was over they were sharing a prison cell . . .

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I Is for Innocent

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I is for Innocent is the ninth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

I feel compelled to report that at the moment of death, my entire life did not pass before my eyes in a flash . . . What I experienced was a little voice piping…

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J Is for Judgment

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J is for Judgement is the tenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

On the face of it, you wouldn't think there was any connection between the murder of a dead man and the events that changed my perceptions about my life...

For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation…

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K Is for Killer

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K is for Killer is the eleventh in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

Lorna Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. She has also been found dead in mysterious circumstances and her death pulls Kinsey Millhone into a netherworld of deception,…

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L Is for Lawless

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L is for Lawless is the twelfth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee, the World War II fighter pilot of whom, rather mysteriously, the military authorities have no…

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M is for Malice

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M is for Malice is the thirteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

'M' is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California.

'M' is for Malek family: four sons now nearing middle…

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N is for Noose

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N is for Noose is the fourteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future, a quick view of events lying in store for us. Some moments we saw would make no sense…

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O is for Outlaw

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O is for Outlaw is the fifteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

First there was a phone call from a stranger, then a letter showed up fourteen years after it was sent. That's how I learned I'd made a serious error in judgement and ended up…

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P is for Peril

P is for Peril

It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty nine year old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away - never to be seen again.

His embittered first wife Fiona is…

Sue Grafton delivers an intensely gripping mystery based on an actual unsolved murder in this #1 New York Times bestseller featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone.

She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to…

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R Is for Ricochet

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In this #1 New York Times bestseller in Sue Grafton's Alphabet series, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has her hands full when a job that should be easy money takes a turn for the worse.

Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty…
California private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to solve a decades-old cold case in this "undeniably entertaining" (Los Angeles Times) #1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Grafton.

Cases don't get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared from her rural California town in 1953, leaving behind an…

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T is for Trespass

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Sue Grafton ups the ante for private investigator Kinsey Millhone like never before in this "taut, terrifying, transfixing"* #1 New York Times bestselling mystery in the Alphabet series.

Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term "Grumpy Gus." A miser and a hoarder,…

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U Is for Undertow

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Sue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with this twisting, complex #1 New York Times bestseller that draws private investigator Kinsey Millhone into a case shrouded in the sins of the past.

Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone's office with a story to tell. When he…

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V Is for Vengeance

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A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of this daring Kinsey Millhone mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton.

Private detective Kinsey Millhone feels a bit out of place in any department store's lingerie section, but she's entirely in her element when she puts a…

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W Is for Wasted

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Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds shocking connections between two seemingly unrelated deaths in this #1 New York Times bestselling mystery in the Alphabet series.

The first victim is a local PI of suspect reputation, gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. The second is a John Doe found on…

Y is for Yesterday is the twenty-fifth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate - and film…