Synopsis: “I” is For Innocent Book By Sue Grafton Structured like a legal case — one-third prosecution, one-third defense, and a final third of cross-examination and rebuttal — private investigator Kinsey Millhone takes on a murder case her predecessor may have gotten fatally wrong, in the ninth installment of Sue Grafton’s bestselling Alphabet series.
Fired by the insurance agency she’d worked for, private investigator Kinsey Millhone takes on a last-minute murder case that nobody else wants to touch. The previous investigator on the file is dead, and the man now accused of killing his wife swears he’s innocent. If he’s telling the truth, someone else got away with murder — and has been walking free ever since. Kinsey isn’t so sure she believes him, but the deeper she digs, the harder it becomes to tell.
Told in three distinct movements — prosecution, defense, and a final act of cross-examination and rebuttal — Grafton builds a trial without a courtroom, letting the reader weigh the evidence right alongside Kinsey. It’s a structure that turns the mystery into something closer to a trial in the reader’s own mind, refusing to hand over easy answers until the very last page.
The ninth entry in Grafton’s celebrated Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries, “I” Is for Innocent showcases why Kinsey remains one of crime fiction’s most persuasive and refreshingly unglamorous private investigators — sharp, funny, and never quite as safe as she thinks she is. For fans of hard-boiled detective fiction with real heart, this is Grafton at her most confident.
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- Title: “I” Is for Innocent
- Author: Sue Grafton
- Series: Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries, Book 9
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
- Publication date: 1992
- ISBN: 978-0-8050-1085-5
- Pages: 286 pages (first edition)
- Genre: Mystery / Detective fiction
- Format: Hardcover (first edition)
- Condition: Very Good
- Availability: In Stock
- Price: KES450
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