Author(s): Sue Grafton

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Crime Fiction

Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small Californian town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, Violet's absence has never been explained or forgotten. Now, thirty-four years later, Daisy wants the solace of closure. In S is for Silence, Kinsey Millhone's nineteenth excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, S is for surprises as Sue Grafton takes a whole new approach to telling the tale. And S is for superb: Kinsey and Grafton at their best. First published October 2005 Sue Grafton has become one of the world's most popular female writers. Born in Kentucky in 1940, the daughter of the mystery writer C W Grafton, she began her career as a TV scriptwriter before Kinsey Millhone and the Alphabet series took off. Sue freely confesses that Kinsey is her alter ego: "I think of her as the person I might have been had I not married young and had kids; she is that stripped down piece of my personality." She writes one book a year and plans to take Kinsey all the way through the alphabet to Z when Kinsey will be forty years old. She lives and writes in Montecito, California, and Louisville, Kentucky.

2005. A trade paperback copy in good condition.