Certainly, as you might expect, a story set in 1982 which was years before the explosion of the technological advances we now enjoy DOES feel dated in some ways. Sure, there’s a murder—well, multiple ones actually—and there’s a case of insurance fraud that Kinsey investigates, but it all proved a bit simpler than I would have liked. He was taking medication for numerous allergies and before he went to bed, he downed his usual capsule.

But she was startled to find that just 4 days after Laurence Fife died after ingesting allergy medication laced with oleander, a young woman named Libby Glass, who had been an accountant in Fife's law firm, had also died from oleander poisoning. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead of scrolling through your social media news feed, this is a much better way to spend your spare time in my opinion. F is for Fugitive was the first, entering at number 10 on the paperback list; by 1995 "L" is for Lawless entered the best seller list at number one followed by ten more in the series.It looked as if Nikki Fife knew better than to try disentangling herself from him legally and had sought other means. Did they actually touch those nasty old magazines at the doctor's office with the germs of a billion sick people writhing like a primordial bacteria soup just waiting for the next victim? Her latest client is Nikki Fife, second wife of a successful divorce attorney, who was sent to prison eight years ago for his murder.

Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. Note: All written content is my original creation and copyrighted to me, but the graphics and images were linked from other sites and belong to them.It’s not long before Millhone discovers that more than one person could have had a reason for wanting to kill him. Kinsey Millhone lives in Santa Teresa, California and is a rebellious and independent detective who has no thrived as a police officer, so set up on her own. We get an intimate look into her mind as she interviews the suspects and slowly unravels the mystery. This book kicks off the alphabet murders series, a set of novels by Sue Grafton each with a letter of the alphabet and introduces us to her private eye anti-heroine Kinsey Millhone.

As Millhone begins to dig deeper and follow up on different aspects of Fife’s personal and professional lives, the trail leads her to one particular witness, who is murdered before being able to ‘fill in blanks’ in the case. This is the book that introduced Kinsey Millhone and helped inaugurate a new era in crime fiction when female investigators like Millhone and Sara Paretsky's V. U Hrvatskoj je prevedeno nekoliko naslova, ali se izdavači nisu marketinški pretrgli tako da ni tamo ova autorka nije "zaživela", a to i te kako zaslužuje. I was happy and a little surprised at how much I enjoyed rereading 'A is for Alibi' after so many years.

His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Back in California, Kinsey is mystified that Nikki's son, Colin, recognizes Laurence's first wife, Gwen, in a photograph.

Upon finishing 'A is for Alibi', narrated on audiobook by Mary Peiffer, I'm happy to say that I enjoyed this first book in the series as much as when I read it in 1982.Money constraints however, along with many other books in my wish list, means it is going to take some time, but that's OK. Kinsey doesn't really surface any evidence, nor does she glean anything really important from all her interviews. Books in her alphabet series, begun in 1982, are international bestsellers with readership in the millions.