Sue Grafton Read Alikes
Grafton has a gift for dialogue and description and is well known for her alphabetical novels starting with A is for Alibi. All novels of this series are written from the female perspective of the private investigator, Kinsey Millhone.
If you enjoy her books, you may also like the books and authors listed below.
- Deep Pockets
- by Linda Barnes
- Mysteries set in Boston are a great deal better than you might expect from someone who names her character Carlotta Carlyle. In Deep Pockets she is trying to find out who is blackmailing a Harvard university professor.
- Hard Road
- by Barbara D'Amato
- You're off to see the wizard in this delightful Oz-themed mystery, the ninth in the Cat Marsala series.
- No Good Deed
- by Lynn S. Hightower
- Sonora Blair is a a police detective trying to balance her job and her homelife as a widowed mother of 2. In No Good Deed, a 15 year old girl has disappeared from a riding school and Sonora is in a race against time to find her.
- Sleeping Lady
- by Sue Henry
- On a glacial plateau beyond the mountain ridges of Alaska's famous Sleeping Lady, Jensen and Rochelle pursue the truth in situations where one mistake can mean your life.
- Cold Heart of Capricorn
- by Martha C. Lawrence
- Elizabeth Chase is a registered Private eye but she is also a telepathic psychic with a degree in Psychiatry. In this book, she is working with the police to track down an escalating serial rapist.
- Killing hour
- by Lisa Gardner
- Between the years of 1998-2000, eight college kids in Georgia were kidnapped in pairs and the first of the duo was killed immediately. The first victim had clues on their person that if properly interpreted in time would lead the authorities to the other victim who might still be alive. Only one victim was saved. Three years later, rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy has reason to believe the serial killer has become active again.
- Dating is murder
- by Harley Jane Kozak
- Greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley takes part in a reality television show where the audience votes on which couple will make the best parents. In the meantime, Wollie's friend, Annika, disappears so Wollie sets out to find her and lands herself in the middle of an FBI investigation into an international drug cartel. Matters become worse when Wollie is stalked by several characters including the reality television contestants.
- Listen to the Silence
- by Marcia Muller
- Muller writes a number of different series, the one closest to Grafton's style are the Sharon McCone mysteries. McCone is an investigator for a legal cooperative in San Francisco. Here she assists the attorneys who help lower class and indigent people. She is a diligent detective, using equal parts intuition, persistence and tact. In Listen to the Silence, McCone is on a personal quest for the truth.
- High country fall
- by Margaret Maron
- Judge Deborah Knott is getting cold feet about her upcoming marriage to her childhood best friend, and decides to accept a request to fill in for a vacationing judge in a small mountain town. She arrives just after a local doctor is murdered, and orders that the trial for his suspected killer go ahead, despite her reservations about his guilt. Shortly after, another prominent citizen is killed, forcing Judge Knott to view this pretty mountain town, and her own life, in a whole new way.
- Blood Will Tell
- by Dana Stabenow
- Aleut investigator, Kate Shugak, faces one of the most painful cases of her reluctant career. And the more Kate investigates, the more she discovers how deeply she is tied to the land [Alaska], and to what lengths she will go in order to protect it...