I is for Innocent

Sue Grafton

eBook - 1992

Readers of Sue Grafton's fiction know she never writes the same book twice, and "I" Is For Innocent is no exception. Her most intricately plotted novel to date, it is layered in enough complexity to baffle even the cleverest among us.Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a se...rious mistake), is trying to divest David Barney of the profits of that murder. But time is running out, and David Barney still swears he's innocent.Patterned along the lines of a legal case, "I" Is For Innocent is seamlessly divided into thirds:... more