A is For Alibi

By Sue Grafton

Former cop turned private investigator Kinsey Millhone promises newly paroled Nikki Fife to investigate the murder of Nikki's husband.  Nikki was convicted of his murder and served her jail time, but now wants Kinsey to reopen the case.  Then another corpse shows up, and Kinsey is left with too many other suspects and not enough clues.

I thought I would like this book more than I did, considering Grafton has made it through most of the alphabet with Kinsey.  But Millhone is so clueless, and stumbles from place to place without processing anything.  Maybe she gets smarter in later stories, but I'll never know... I refuse to read another one.