Benable — create shareable lists of things you recommend!
E.g., products you love, local businesses, travel recs - you can add anything to a Benable list!

Sue Grafton Alphabet Mystery Series

Purple Star emoji 25 items
Author Sue Grafton created PI character Kinsey Millhone for this series. The first book, A is for Alibi, was published in 1982 and the series became a best seller, continuing its success with each successive book. Unfortunately, Sue was unable to fin...
 
Misty M profile picture
If there’s one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it’s playing on the edge. and then her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects.
"A" Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone Series #1)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, she's reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danziger's sister . Why is she enlisting Kinsey's services?
B Is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone Series #2)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
The only clues Kinsey has to go on are an address book and the name "Blackman." Bobby can't remember who he gave the address book. Any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when he's killed in another car accident.
C Is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone Series #3)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhone's office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. Kinsey wonders why he doesn't deliver the money himself. She's almost certain something is off.
D Is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone Series #4)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhone—until holiday weekends rolls around. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line.
E Is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone Series #5)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it's hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago,a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boys—was found. Her boyfriend B...
F Is for Fugitive (Kinsey Millhone Series #6)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn't heard from in six months. A girl's gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy money—or so she thinks.
G Is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone Series #7)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Kinsey Millhone working on a case involving the death of a claims adjuster for a California insurance company. The story takes her into the Los Angeles barrio in pursuit of a violent criminal.
H Is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Series #8)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Five years ago David Barney was acquitted of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now, Isabelle's ex-husband, Ken Voigt—who is suing Barney for her estate—is claiming the jury made a fatal mistake.
I Is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone Series #9)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Wendell Jaffe looks great for a dead man! He's been six feet under for five years ago—until his former insurance agent spots him at a dusty resort bar in Mexico. Now California Fidelity wants its insurance money back. Can P.I. Kinsey Millhone get on ...
J Is for Judgment (Kinsey Millhone Series #10)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her. Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect.
K Is for Killer (Kinsey Millhone Series #11)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Kinsey Millhone is back and once again embroiled in a complex and entertaining case that only she can crack.
L Is for Lawless (Kinsey Millhone Series #12)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Malek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew to become one of the big three in California construction. Today, the three Malek sons stand to inherit a fortune, but in order for that to happen, the missing fourth brother must be found...
M Is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone Series #13)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Tom Newquist, a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office has died. Now that Tom is gone, Selma, his wife, can't help but wonder what it really was that was troubling him
N Is for Noose (Kinsey Millhone Series #14)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Let’s talk about Kinsey’s past. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, and her long-lost family up the California coast. But what about Kinsey’s husband number one?
O Is for Outlaw (Kinsey Millhone Series #15)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secret
P Is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone Series #16)
 
Misty M profile picture
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry. Detectives had little to go on. After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved...
Q Is for Quarry (Kinsey Millhone Series #17)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. He wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the...
R Is for Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone Series #18)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Cases don't get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared in 1953, leaving behind an abusive husband and a seven-year-old named Daisy. But PI Kinsey Millhone has promised the now adult Daisy she'll try her best to locate Violet, dead ...
S Is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Series #19)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
Kinsey's neighbor, Grumpy Gus, needs a caregiver. Kinsey runs a background check on the applicant. The real Solana Rojas was indeed an excellent caregiver. But the woman who has stolen her identity is not, and for her, Gus will be the ideal victim.....
T Is for Trespass (Kinsey Millhone Series #20)
 
Misty M profile picture
Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone's office. When he was six, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. Now, all these years later, events have come back to him—and he has pieced them together with news reports...
U Is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone Series #21)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
A Spiderweb of dangerous relationships is at the heart of this novel. And private detective, Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth-birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her with two black eyes and a busted nose.
V Is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Series #22)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
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 the beach six weeks later with a slip of paper with private detective Kinsey Millhone’s name and number in his pocket.
W Is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone Series #23)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Can PI Kinsey prove her case against him before she becomes the next victim?
X (Kinsey Millhone Series #24)
placeholder
 
Misty M profile picture
In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate—and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. One boy turns state’s evidence...
Y Is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone Series #25)
placeholder