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Sue Grafton and Vince Flynn ...
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“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”
Sue Grafton
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Gripping crime fiction from Sue Grafton ...
Sue Grafton is published in 28 countries and 26 languages—including Estonian, Bulgarian, and Indonesian. She’s an international
bestseller with a readership in the millions. She’s a writer who believes in the form that she has chosen to mine: "The mystery
novel offers a world in which justice is served. Maybe not in a court of law," she has said, "but people do get their just desserts."
And like Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, Robert Parker and the John D. MacDonald—the best of her breed—she has earned new respect
for that form. Her readers appreciate her buoyant style, her eye for detail, her deft hand with character, her acute social observances,
and her abundant storytelling talents.
But who is the real Sue Grafton? Many of her readers think she is simply a version of her character and alter ego Kinsey Millhone.
Here are Kinsey’s own words in the early pages of N Is for Noose:
"So there I was barreling down the highway in search of employment and not at all fussy about what kind of work I’d take. I wanted
distraction. I wanted some money, escape, anything to keep my mind off the subject of Robert Deitz. I’m not good at good-byes. I’ve
suffered way too many in my day and I don’t like the sensation. On the other hand, I’m not that good at relationships. Get close to
someone and the next thing you know, you’ve given them the power to wound, betray, irritate, abandon you, or bore you senseless.
My general policy is to keep my distance, thus avoiding a lot of unruly emotion. In psychiatric circles, there are names for people like me."
Those are sentiments that hit home for Grafton’s readers. And she has said that Kinsey is herself, only younger, smarter, and thinner.
But are they an apt description of Kinsey’s creator? Well, she’s been married to Steve Humphrey for more than twenty years. She has
three kids and two grandkids. She loves cats, gardens, and good cuisine—not quite the nature-hating, fast-food loving Millhone. So:
readers and reviewers beware. Never assume the author is the character in the book. Sue, who has a home in Montecito, California
("Santa Theresa") and another in Louisville, the city in which she was born and raised, is only in her imagination Kinsey Millhone—but
what a splendid imagination it is.
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R Is For Ricochet
By: Grafton, Sue
Published by: Berkley
Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee's father to keep
her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee's past starts coming back to haunt her.more...
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S is for Silence
By: Grafton, Sue
Published by: Berkley
Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth
of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged.
Some said she'd run off with a lover.more...
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P Is for Peril
By: Grafton, Sue
Published by: Penguin Putnam Inc
She's every lover's feisty girlfriend. She's every father's courageous daughter.
She's every woman's tough, vulnerable, and spirited alter ego. She's Kinsey Millhone, familiar to millions
of readers around the globe, and she's...more...
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Q Is For Quarry
By: Grafton, Sue
Published by: The Penguin Group (USA)
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was
discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County
Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on....more...
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T is for Trespass
By: Grafton, Sue
Published by: G. P. Putnam''s Sons
Transgress: A transgression of law involving one's obligations to God or
to one's neighbor; a violation of moral law; an offense; a sin. -Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged. In what may..more...
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.… Suspenseful thrillers from Vince Flynn...
The fifth of seven children, Vince Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1966. He graduated from the St.
Thomas Academy in 1984, and the University of St. Thomas with a degree in economics in 1988. After college he
went to work for Kraft General Foods where he was an account and sales marketing specialist. In 1990 he left
Kraft to accept an aviation candidate slot with the United States Marine Corps. One week before leaving for
Officers Candidate School, he was medically disqualified from the Marine Aviation Program, due to several
concussions and convulsive seizures he suffered growing up. While trying to obtain a medical waiver
for his condition, he started thinking about writing a book. This was a very unusual choice for Flynn
since he had been diagnosed with dyslexia in grade school and had struggled with reading and writing all his life.
Having been stymied by the Marine Corps, Flynn returned to the nine-to-five grind and took a job with United Properties,
a commercial real estate company in the Twin Cities. During his spare time he worked on an idea he had for a book. After
two years with United Properties he decided to take a big gamble. He quit his job, moved to Colorado, and began working
full time on what would eventually become Term Limits . Like many struggling artists before him, he bartended at night
and wrote during the day. Five years and more than sixty rejection letters later he took the unusual step of
self-publishing his first novel. The book went to number one in the Twin Cities, and within a week had a new
agent and two-book deal with Pocket Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint.
Term Limits hit the New York Times bestseller list in paperback and started a trend for all of Flynn's novels.
Since then, his books have become perennial bestsellers in both paperback and hardcover, and he has become
known for his research and prescient warnings about the rise of Islamic Radical Fundamentalism and terrorism.
Read by current and former presidents, foreign heads of state, and intelligence professionals around the world,
Flynn's novels are taken so seriously one high-ranking CIA official told his people, “I want you to read Flynn's
books and start thinking about how we can more effectively wage this war on terror.”
October 2007 marked another milestone in Flynn’s career when his ninth political thriller, Protect and Defend, became a #1 New
York Times bestseller. A few months later, CBS Films optioned the rights for Flynn’s Mitch Rapp character with the intention of
creating a character-based, action-thriller movie franchise. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who previously launched the Harry Potter
and Matrix films as head of production at Warner Bros., and Nick Wechsler (We Own the Night, Reservation Road) will produce the films.
Flynn lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children.
Influences: Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, and John Irving
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Extreme Measures
By: Flynn, Vince
Published by: ATRIA BOOKS
In the newest devastatingly intense thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling
phenomenon Vince Flynn, his deadly and charismatic hero Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy
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Act of Treason
By: Flynn, Vince
Published by: ATRIA BOOKS
CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading
directly to the heart of our nation's capital in New York Times bestselling author Vince
Flynn's eighth explosive thriller. It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic...more...
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Protect & Defend
Flynn, Vince
Published by: ATRIA BOOKS
An action-packed and all-too-realistic vision of nations navigating the minefield of
international intrigue, Protect and Defend is Vince Flynn's most explosive political thriller yet.
The action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars...more...
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The Third Option
By: Flynn, Vince
Published by: Simon & Schuster
When diplomacy and military intervention fail, our leaders turn to 'The Third Option.'
CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp is obeying his orders - to kill a German industrialist
selling sensitive equipment to sponsors of terrorism - when he...more...
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Memorial Day
By: Flynn, Vince
Published by: Aladdin
Fearless counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp is called upon to fight against the world's most
deadly terrorists in this harrowing political thriller by New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn. It's just
seven days before Memorial Day, and...more...
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