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	• P Is for Peril (A Marian Wood Book) (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries (Hardcover)) Sue Grafton Amazon Remainders Account, 2001 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 254 reviews view larger image
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A Long Way To Z

Grafton is the best mystery author now working. P is for Peril easily equals her high standards. I really like Kinsey, and I feel this book is among the finest recent Kinsey novels. I admire Grafton for risking reader hostility for the chances she takes with this story. Overall, P is a solid series entry, and I'm glad we still have a long way to go to Z.

Welcome back!

Honestly, I've been unimpressed by the past four or five Kinsey Millhone books. Grafton has been slipping into lackluster formula, putting her heroine into less-than-gripping situations, the outcome of which I haven't given a hoot about. But with "P is for Peril," she's back in top form, with not one, but two intriguing plotlines. Reading this book, you know why this series is consistantly on every best-seller list. By the denouement (on the last page, no less!), I had re-discovered why I became a Millhone fan in the first place. Brava!

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Sue Grafton Reigns

She has done it again! Like a magnet, my hand automatically reached for that large letter "P" on the library shelf. Weeks after Sue Grafton's latest book "P" is for Peril reached the local library it finally made it to the shelf without a hold placed on it. I am not even a reader of mystery genre. It wouldn't even matter to me if there was a mystery involved! I just like to read about Kinsey Malone, her neighbors, friends, enemies, divorces, affairs...well you get the picture. Sue Grafton can spin a story out of the most fragmented bits of information. I admire her ability to create real people for me as I read. And I envy her ability to blend it all together...she must use index cards like she requires Kinsey to do for her private detective work. I will be patiently waiting for "Q", while still telling others about "A" through "P."

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Now I'm Learning my ABC's

I am embarrassed to say, " 'P' is for Peril" is the first of the alphabet series I have read by Ms. Grafton. I enjoyed it so much, the day after I finished reading it, I went right out and picked up a copy of "K" is for Killer; and I must say, I enjoyed it equally as well. I hope that by early spring, I know as much about the Kinsey Millhone investigations as Sue Grafton.
Ms. Grafton has successfully blended all the ingredients together for a first rate novel. The story is fast paced and has a suspenseful plot. Ms. Grafton's character development is outstanding too. Kinsey Millhone does not do triple reverse sommersaults and karate six men twice her size to death. She does not work for free and she is not anal retentive about stretching the truth when it suits her purpose. She is a quick wit and a skilled investigator; an extremely believable character.
I'm not an easy sell either. I'm a retired lieutenant with the Chicago Police Department. I spent ten of those years in homicide, ten more in narcotics. I know what rings true in police investigations and I know what Private Investigators can and cannot do. Consequently, I was unable to watch "Columbo" and a host of other like shows; nor can I read novels that stink to the high heavens. Ms. Grafton's books are a breath of fresh air and a great find for me.

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P is for pleasing

I really enjoyed this latest Kinsey Millhone book. I worked in a nursing home for several years and saw all sorts of strange things like she has described. She has written perfectly about the atmosphere in such a place and the people who work there. I wish we had learned if Leila actually stole the money out of the bank account and more about her, but she wasn't the main character. I didn't particularly like either of Dr. P's wives.

Henry, her landlord, is one of my favorites. I wish I had a neighbor like him!

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