Kinsey and Me by Sue Grafton

In Kinsey and Me, Sue Grafton re-publishes some short stories featuring Kinsey Milhone and Grafton's alter ego, Kit Blue.  The Kinsey stories are entertaining and feature a very short story that she wrote for a contest featuring a Land's End jacket. But it is the Kit Blue stories that grabbed my attention.  Grafton admits in the introduction that the Kit Blue stories were her way of processing her feelings about her alcoholic parents, and especially her mother's suicide at age fifty-one.  Fans of Kinsey Milhone will appreciate this glimpse into the circumstances which called her forth and created the emotionally compartmentalized way she solves her cases. 280 pages.