It's hard to imagine now that Santa Barbara was the site of one of the country's biggest oil spills in 1969. You know, that's OK."įrom the beach, on a clear day, you can see offshore oil rigs bobbing up and down on the Pacific horizon. Kinsey is also respectful of law and order, but she does break and enter. And if I'm stopped by the cops, I'm in a white-hot sweat. "She's the person I might have been had I not married young and had my children," Grafton says. Millhone is a feisty gumshoe who curses a lot and likes to eat peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. Those solutions come about through her alter ego, Kinsey Millhone - whose name, like Santa Teresa's, she lifted from the writings of hard-boiled crime novelist Ross MacDonald. "And I am not only responsible for all the homicides, I am responsible for the solution to all those crimes." "I control the weather I can move real estate at will I can change the orientation of streets," she explains. The 73-year-old author calls herself the Goddess of Santa Teresa. Now, she kisses the ground of her real-life and fictional setting every day. Grafton says she used to think Santa Barbara's beautiful views and temperate weather were monotonous.
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