title: Q is for Quarry: A Kinsey Millhone Novel
author:  Sue Grafton 
description: Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially <a href="/exec/obidos/tg/stores/series/-/32/${0}">popular series</a> that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the case here. Two old, ailing cops--one retired, the other disabled--try to breathe some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them both for different reasons. They enlist Kinsey's help in identifying the victim, a young woman who was murdered and left for dead in the old quarry of the title. Neither they nor Kinsey expect that reopening an old case will incite the killer to strike again--not once, but twice. And while the real case of the still-unidentified victim that inspired this fictionalized scenario continues to languish in the cold case file in the Santa Barbara sheriff's office, Grafton's solution is as plausible as any. While the unlikely trio of Millhone and her cranky geezer sidekicks offers a few chuckles, the inner reaches of Kinsey's soul remain largely inaccessible to her as well as to the reader, which will probably not bother most of Kinsey's or Grafton's many admirers. <i>--Jane Adams</i>
zlib_text: PHENOMENAL PRAISE FOR THE MYSTERY NOVELS OF  
  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
  
  SUE GRAFTON
  
  “Exceptionally entertaining . . . An offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense
  of justice.”
  
  —San Francisco Chronicle
  
  “Millhone is an engaging detective-for-hire . . . PI Kinsey Millhone and her
  creator . . . are arguably the best of [the] distaff invaders of the hitherto
  sacrosanct turf of gumshoes.”
  
  —The Buffalo News
  
  “Once a fan reads one of Grafton’s alphabetically titled detective novels, he
  or she will not rest until all the others are found.”
  
  —Los Angeles Herald Examiner
  
  “Millhone is a refreshingly strong and resourceful female private eye.”
  
  —Library Journal
  
  “Tough but compassionate . . . There is no one better than Kinsey Millhone.”
  
  —Best Sellers
  
  “A woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious
  loner.”
  
  —Newsweek
  
  “Lord, how I like this Kinsey Millhone . . . The best detective fiction I have
  read in years.”
  
  —The New York Times Book Review
  
  “Smart, t