Between A de Alibi and Y de Yesterday, 25 years passed, but Kinsey Milhone has hardly aged and continues novel after novel being as stubborn, persistent, feisty as in his first case.

She lives in California, in Santa Teresa (reminiscent of Santa Bárbara, Sue Grafton's place of residence, as much as Vetusta remembers Oviedo in the Regenta de Clarín), she is intelligent and hardworking, an athlete and an expert in personal defense. At age 32, when the series of The Alphabet of CrimeShe is a private investigator, one of those detectives who handle boring and bureaucratic cases, until a case becomes more complicated than usual and the saga begins. His aunt provided him with everything he needed to grow and not an iota of affection. Kinsey survives a harsh, uncaring childhood due to the death of her parents when she was only five years old. It is natural, it is authentic and like any well-built character happens like real people: some like it and others dislike it. It was not the intention of Sue Grafton that she had never wanted to include any social claim in her novels and that makes Kinsey even more exceptional. Kinsey is not the detective's girlfriend, she is not the victim, she is not the assistant, she is the one who faces the bad guys and solves the most complicated cases. Kinsey mihone It was a revolution in the genre: The first woman, beyond Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, who assumes the protagonism and the heavy load of the noir genre, 'detective' as Grafton preferred to call it. Grafton not only channeled the deep negative emotions her divorce generated by writing an excellent novel, but she unwittingly created the first female detective to break the stereotypes of women used over and over again up to that date. 'Instead of spending my life in jail, I thought of something much better: to kill him in a book and also receive money for it. Sue Grafton felt like killing her ex-husband when they were facing in court for the custody of their son and, that contained aggressiveness became her first crime novel, A for Adultery (A from Alibi in original). Sue Grafton takes the last letter of the alphabet with her.

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