Sue Grafton Books in Order

After a flood kills her husband, Keziah Dane struggles to raise her children in a poor rural community. Taking in a drifter brings fresh danger, testing her ability to protect a family already fighting to survive.

Two feuding rural families turn a prank involving an imaginary young woman into a dangerous confrontation. When an unrelated girl is mistaken for Lolly Madonna and abducted, old grievances threaten everyone caught between the rival households.

Released after serving eight years for her husband's murder, Nikki Fife hires private investigator Kinsey Millhone to find the real killer. Reopening the case exposes other suspects, competing motives, and evidence that has grown dangerously cold.

Beverly Danziger hires Kinsey Millhone to find her sister Elaine Boldt and obtain a signature for an inheritance. A seemingly simple missing-person assignment becomes tangled with vandalism, suspicious neighbors, and a brutal murder.

A young man who survived a devastating car crash asks Kinsey Millhone for protection. When he is subsequently murdered, Kinsey pursues the danger he feared, determined to discover who wanted him dead and why.

Kinsey Millhone accepts a job delivering a large check to a boy, then discovers her client's identity and payment are fraudulent. His subsequent drowning draws her into an investigation involving an ex-convict with numerous enemies.

An unexplained five thousand dollars appears in Kinsey Millhone's bank account during an insurance investigation. Suspecting a setup, she must clear her name while uncovering an old family secret that has become entangled with the claim.

Kinsey Millhone investigates the seventeen-year-old murder of Jean Timberlake in the seaside town of Floral Beach. Reconsidering the conviction of escaped prisoner Bailey Fowler forces her to confront residents determined to keep their secrets buried.

While locating an elderly woman in the Mojave Desert, Kinsey Millhone learns a criminal has placed her on a hit list. A hired bodyguard helps her navigate an investigation complicated by personal danger and buried betrayals.

An insurance adjuster's murder leads Kinsey Millhone into a suspected fraud operation. Working undercover in Los Angeles, she becomes involved with Bibianna Diaz and the dangerously possessive Raymond Maldonado, whose violence threatens to expose her investigation.

Edited by Marilyn Wallace, this anthology gathers twenty-one original mysteries by women, including Sue Grafton, Nancy Pickard, and Marcia Muller. The stories bring varied investigators, settings, and criminal puzzles together in a collection of distinct voices.

After losing her insurance-agency job, Kinsey Millhone investigates an artist's murder for a civil case against the acquitted defendant. Conflicting witnesses and the accused man's insistence on his innocence complicate an assignment built around presumed guilt.

Sue Grafton edits advice from experienced Mystery Writers of America members on creating and selling crime fiction. Chapters address plotting, characters, dialogue, research, clues, and red herrings, alongside guidance on agents and specialized mystery subgenres.

An insurance agent spots Wendell Jaffe in Mexico five years after his presumed death. Kinsey Millhone investigates whether his widow's substantial payout rests on fraud, uncovering family tensions and questions about his disappearance and business dealings.

Ten months after Lorna Kepler's death, her mother hires Kinsey Millhone to investigate an unresolved case. Examining Lorna's ordinary day job and hidden sexual activities brings Kinsey into contact with people whose accounts complicate the investigation.

A favor concerning a deceased neighbor's supposed military service sends Kinsey Millhone into an unexpectedly dangerous mystery. Missing records, a burglary, and an assault lead toward a cross-country pursuit involving concealed identities and old grievances.

Kinsey Millhone is hired to locate a brother missing for eighteen years so a wealthy family's inheritance can be settled. Bringing him back threatens a household divided by resentment, competing expectations, and longstanding hostility.

Selma Newquist suspects her detective husband's death involved more than a heart attack and hires Kinsey Millhone to investigate. In a small Sierra town, Kinsey examines his final work while encountering hostility and threats.

Guest editor Sue Grafton selects a varied set of American mystery and crime stories for this annual volume. Established writers including Mary Higgins Clark, Walter Mosley, Lawrence Block, and Donald E. Westlake appear alongside newer voices.

A storage unit containing old belongings leads Kinsey Millhone to an undelivered letter connected to her first husband. Revisiting assumptions behind their divorce pulls her into an unresolved murder investigation and danger rooted in her own past.

Kinsey Millhone investigates a doctor's disappearance amid tensions involving his former and current wives. While unraveling conflicting accounts and concealed relationships, she also becomes drawn to a man whose own past carries a dangerous secret.

Patricia Craig’s international detective-story anthology spans classic and modern crime fiction from Britain, the United States, Europe, Japan, and beyond. The selection includes police procedurals, amateur sleuths, women detectives, and locked-room puzzles, with a story by Garry Disher.

This interactive Kinsey Millhone mystery combines a short story with a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. As Kinsey investigates Margery Crispin’s death for the victim’s sister, readers assemble the puzzle to uncover visual clues and solve the case.

Two aging police officers ask Kinsey Millhone to help reopen the murder of an unidentified woman found in a quarry eighteen years earlier. Discovering the victim's identity becomes the essential first step toward finding her killer.

A wealthy father hires Kinsey Millhone to supervise his daughter Reba after her release from prison for embezzlement. The assignment grows complicated when Reba reconnects with people and habits that threaten her chances of staying straight.

Daisy hires Kinsey Millhone to discover what happened to her mother, Violet Sullivan, who vanished decades earlier. Returning to the town where Daisy grew up reveals conflicting memories, lingering anger, and secrets surrounding the disappearance.

After an elderly neighbor's fall, Kinsey Millhone checks the credentials of his new caregiver, Solana Rojas. Apparently reassuring records conceal a stolen identity, leaving Kinsey to recognize the threat posed by a predator targeting a vulnerable man.

Michael Sutton asks Kinsey Millhone to investigate a childhood memory of two men burying something he now believes was a kidnapped child's body. Uncertain recollections complicate her search for a possible crime concealed twenty years earlier.

Kinsey Millhone helps catch shoplifter Audrey Vance, then learns of her apparent suicide. Hired by Audrey's fiancé to investigate, Kinsey follows connections between theft, organized crime, and financial wrongdoing that make the death increasingly suspicious.

This collection pairs Kinsey Millhone mysteries with autobiographical fiction featuring Kit Blue, a younger version of Sue Grafton. The two sections explore the detective's cases alongside stories shaped by the author's childhood and difficult family relationships.

Two deaths draw Kinsey Millhone into a puzzling investigation: a local private detective is shot, and an unidentified homeless man carries her contact information. Connections between the apparently separate cases reach unexpectedly into her own past.

Kinsey Millhone faces a serial killer whose crimes have left remarkably little evidence. With the killer's identity revealed early, the investigation centers on finding proof strong enough to stop him before he selects another victim.

Released from prison after a schoolmate's murder, Fritz McCabe becomes the target of blackmail involving a missing video of a teenage sexual assault. His parents hire Kinsey Millhone to investigate, reopening a dangerous history of adolescent crimes.