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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What's the origin of the alphabet tradition? In the back of my mind, when I thought I would write a mystery novel, I understood the virtue of having titles that readers-at-large could recognize so that they'd know you had a next book out. I was reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

This is the 21st book in the series. How have you come up with so many different plots? Part of what I do is keep charts of the books I've written, so I have a record of the gender of every killer, the gender of the victim, the motive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

Tell me about your heroine, Kinsey Milhone. What is she like? I claim she is a loner, and she is to a certain extent. She's perfectly happy in her own company. She says at one point, "I am not half of something looking for the other half." She's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

Is she like you? Is it at all autobiographical? Yes. She is the person I might have been had I not married young and had children. When I was growing up, I didn't get, "You could be a police officer," which might have been really, really fun. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

Your new book deals with false-memory syndrome. How did you become interested in that? There have been many instances in cases where people have been accused of sexual molestation, sexual abuse, satanic rituals with children, where it is purely the artifact of a therapist who decides that you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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