Because much like the year before it, 2017 has to get in a few more celebrity deaths in before it ends. Sadly, that death is Sue Grafton, author of the popular Alphabet mystery book series.
I'm not going to BS and say that I'm a die hard fan of Sue Grafton. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to her books yet other than skimming A Is for Alibi once. But that was enough and she was immediately added to my TBR pile. I was planning on starting it next month.
The thing that first caught my attention was obviously the naming scheme. A series where every book is named after a letter of the alphabet? That piques your interest enough to at least pick up the first book and check it out. After that, the writing goes to work. I don't read a lot of mysteries, but the writing on the first ten or so pages of A Is for Alibi sure did their job.
As for the Alphabet series, fans of Kinsey Millhone have another, smaller reason to mourn. Sue Grafton was in the process of writing the final book, Z is for Zero, when she died and according to her daughter, Grafton doesn't want the book to be finished by someone else. Not a tragedy on the scale of Grafton herself dying, but certainly body blow for fans of the series.
