‘From the age of five onward, I was left to raise myself, which I did as well as I could, having had no formal training in parenthood’ (Rex) “I want to be the king of American mysteries,” Sue Grafton ...

SUE Grafton, who has died aged 77, was an American detective novelist who was internationally renowned for her series of ‘alphabet’ crime thriller books, which began in 1982 with A is for Alibi and ...