Last Updated Dec 29, 2017 3:04 PM EST
LOS ANGELES – Mystery writer Sue Grafton has died in Santa Barbara, California. She was 77.
Her daughter, Jamie Clark, posted news of her mother’s death on Grafton’s Facebook page Friday.
Author Sue Grafton poses with a copy of her book “R is for Ricochet” on April 23, 2005 in Los Angeles.
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She says her mother passed away Thursday night after a two-year battle with cancer and was surrounded by family, including Grafton’s husband, Steve.
Grafton was the author of the so-called Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Series in which each book title begins with a letter from the alphabet. The last was “Y is for Yesterday.”
In the post, Grafton’s daughter said her mother was “adamant that her books would never be turned into movies or TV shows, and in that same vein, she would never allow a ghost writer to write in her name.”
Her daughter concluded her posting by saying, “the alphabet now ends at Y.”
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