Better Than The Past Few

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	• S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) Sue Grafton Berkley, 2006 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 223 reviews view larger image
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Great Story

This was one of her better ones and I really liked the story. Long...but worth the read.

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Quirky as ever

Kinsey Millhone takes a trip to the small towns north of her Santa Teresa (Santa Barbara) home in this new installment of her adventures. Violet Sullivan, the town floozy and party girl, disappeared without a trace in a new Chevy coupe thirty-four years ago. No body was found and her daughter, Daisy, hires Kinsey to investigate the mystery, get some answers, and hopefully brings some closure to her life. Did Violet suffer foul play or did she walk away and abandon Daisy?

It turns out that Violet Sullivan touched and impacted many lives as Kinsey learns when she starts asking questions and digging deeper and deeper. The fun of author Sue Grafton's books is following the quirky Kinsey Millhone around as she encounters equally quirky people and situations. Grafton has a gift at being able to describe interactions between her characters that are amusing, believable, and substantive. This people to people angle is the strength of "S is for Silence" (which is the case with all of Grafton's alphabet series) as the reader is brought into a world of fascinating, funny, sad, or nasty, but never dull personalities.

The book alternates between Kinsey's first person narrative of the present and third person descriptions of the other characters during the time frame of Violet's disappearance. From the latter the reader learns many secrets of the characters that impact both and case and also the courses their lives took. Kinsey may or may not be a party to this information and the reader is in a position of knowing more than her. With the pot boiling (as a Potboiler should) with tension and anticipation, the plot peters out in the end and I felt a little let down. Perhaps Grafton had to hastily wrap up the story to meet a deadline. If not for the abrupt and flat ending I would have given the book five stars. Nevertheless, I strongly praise "S is for Silence," recommend it for both Grafton devotees and the uninitiated, and consider it the best Kinsey Millhone mystery in recent years.

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Better Than The Past Few

This book was really only worthy of three stars -- however, I gave it an extra one in comparison to the last few in the series.

The ending is disappointing -- I could hardly remember who the guy was or what his back story was. I also thought it was all a bit too convenient, particularly everything at the breeder's house -- the way she mentioned calling the culprit, the way she turned the lights off as Kinsey left the house, etc. The rest of the story was fairly interesting, although I missed the usual cast of characters such as Henry and Rosie.

I also can't say I like this being stuck in the 80s. Sharon McCone has aged with time and is still as good as ever. I feel like I can no longer relate to Kinsey the way I used to.

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