Sue Grafton has Another Success

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	• S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mystery) Sue Grafton Berkley, 2006 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 230 reviews view larger image
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Couldn't put it down!

Have to admit that I was also getting a bit tired of this series, but I couldn't put this installment down.

First of all, I liked the intercutting of other perspectives with Kinsey's (i.e., the flashbacks to 1953). I think these told you more about the characters than Kinsey could have, and I like that.

I also liked the fact that Grafton kept the reader guessing until pretty much the last dozen pages. There were 5 men with motives--all equally valid. But which one was capable of murdering in cold blood?

Also, Grafton intersperses this with the usual wit--and of course she can't resist giving a key character a long-needed come-uppance which left me laughing out loud. Justice is dispensed, but it only takes 34 years. But the point is that karma DOES catch up to you!

As for the complaints about small-town folk and stereotypes, well, I've lived in a small town as well as a big city, and sadly, in my experience, the stereotypes DO fit.

It's not great literature, but it's an engrossing and entertaining read. Definitely light and distracting fare for tough times.

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Sue Grafton has Another Success

I have enjoyed all of Sue Grafton's novels; however, I have not been excited about the last three or four. I thought the earlier ones were much better.
I feel that this novel is of better quality than I have read from her for awhile. Although I would not ignore the past three or four. Not everyone likes the same thing. I was not sure if I would like the format of this novel (going back and forth from the 50s to the 80s) but I found it quite enjoyable. I look forward to further novels in this series and would like to see just a little more insight and expansion of into Kinsey's personal life(the present, not the past).

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Small town secrets

To all Kinsey Millhone fans and to those who are yet to be, this is a most enjoyable read. PI Kinsey Millhone has been hired by a woman to reopen the old case of her mother's disappearance, 35 years before. Violet Sullivan was the local party girl, living in a tiny town with her wife-beating, drunk husband and her young daughter. One day Violet was seen driving around town, showing off her new, flashy convertible, and a few days later, she's nowhere to be found with the locals tossing up as to whether she ran off with a lover or that her no-good husband murdered her and somehow got rid of the body and the car. Kinsey questions the locals who are still living in the town after 35 years and stirs up some resentment and unrest among them as old secrets and rivalries come to life and what is, on the surface a typical small town with quiet, law abiding people, soon reveals itself as a seething mass of jealousies and bitterness. Kinsey narrows her search down to five possible suspects, men who have their own reasons for getting rid of poor, dumb Violet. It was a very good read, quick and not too involved, but holding the readers interest to the very end.

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Split Time Works

Okay. So Milhone lives in the 1980s. But the cold case she is working on--and that she draws her alternative point of views from--is set in the 1950s. And, boy does Grafton ever nail the 1950s, when TV was just set to burst into our lives, but was still only in the homes of the more monied.

I enjoyed seeing Grafton employ a new device and stretch her writing talents. It allows us to pick up clues and red herrings and see Violet, the missing dame, from many perspectives. That's a lot of fun!

Janet Riehl, author Sightlines: A Poet's Diary

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