Wow. This was a really good one to sink your teeth into. We have Kinsey showing why she is really a good investigator and her also having to deal with changes to her professional life. I thought the writing was great as well as the flow of the book. The ending comes with a very nice gut punch too. What is great though is that some of these characters pop up in a later book. In “J is for Judgment” Kinsey is asked to investigate […]
You don’t kill someone you’re indifferent to
Sue Grafton died in December of last year. I was familiar with her books from the gimmicky titles but I had never picked one up. I figured if the titles were dorky then the story would be too. After reading some of the tributes to Grafton and Kinsey Millhone, her protagonist, and decided that this would be a great book to kick off CBR10 with. Grafton’s protagonist is a private investigator in California who is, of course, a former police officer. She is cute, blonde […]
X is for xtremely dull
X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss… I had read quite a few of the alphabet books when they were first published, and I think I got to about the letter J or so when I drifted away from the series. I remember enjoying them at the time, but my reading interests shifted onto different things. I was saddened to hear of Sue Grafton’s recent passing, so I decided to pick up one of her more recent efforts for […]
C is for Corpse
I have always wanted to read in order Sue Grafton’s alphabet series. I started this fall with A is for Alibi, followed by B, and then things got busy and the series fell off my radar. When I heard about Sue Grafton’s death, (seriously, fuck cancer) and the alphabet now ending with Y, I was inspired to pick it back up again. Which is how two days into the new year it became my first cannonball read. The lead character, Kinsey Millhone, a tough, smart, […]