G IS FOR GRAFTON
The World of Kinsey Millhone -Revised and Updated
By Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay  
Owl Books - 2000
ISBN: 0805065075 - Trade Paperback
Nonfiction - Biography


Reviewed by: Pam Stone, MyShelf.Com
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G IS FOR GRAFTON won the 1998 Edgar Award for best Biographical work.

Kinsey Millhone's world is one that many of us have been visiting for eighteen years through the pages of Grafton's popular alphabet detective series.  By now, with Grafton more than half way through the alphabet, many readers have become thoroughly addicted to this appealing private detective who lives and works in Santa Teresa, California.  So naturally we want to know every single thing about her.   Kinsey's combination of toughness and vulnerability, bravery and intellectual keenness, compassion and aloofness, engages a wide range of readers of all ages and careers.  Kinsey's ability to defeat the enemy in a terrifying final confrontation, the personal struggles that she goes through in order to do the clean-up, reassure us that our own fears and phobias are both normal and manageable.  If Kinsey is scared of getting an injection from the nurse, yet is capable of running after a murderer and tackling him to the ground, then maybe we can gather up nerve to go on with our daily lives.

Each chapter of the book explores some aspect of Kinsey's life or character, beginning with the specifics of her biography, her daily life, her friends, her favorite places, and her work.  Readers may want to use the table of contents which is detailed enough to allow a reader who, for example, wants to know how Kinsey found Henry Pitts and her apartment, or when her apartment was bombed and rebuilt, can learn the answer in chapter 3: Kinsey's daily life under apartments.  In Chapter 4, you will find out why you will never know her full name.

This book is a very informative book about an intriguing character that most of us love.  We learn everything about Kinsey and everything in her life that we ever wanted to know.  What a wonderful book!

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