The basic characteristics of any good investigator are a plodding nature and infinite patience. Society has inadvertently been grooming women to this end for years. Growing up, it was well known in the house that when a new Sue Grafton book came out, you did not disturb my mother; she felt about those books the way I feel about Seanan McGuire’s books (or Terry Pratchett’s when he was still alive.) And yet even with them always being around, and my inheriting my mother’s love affair […]
“Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they’re right – a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.”
"A" is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (#1) by Sue Grafton
