Q Was Great! I Thought it Was One of the Best!!

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	• Q Is for Quarry Sue Grafton, 2002 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 169 reviews view larger image
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Like Kinsey Milhone

It's taken me a while to cozy up to Kinsey, but I'm there now. Kinsey is sharp, but has a definite edge to her personality. I haven't always been sure I like her, but she's a great detective and, though she often finds herself in a bind while solving a crime, she manages cleverly to get herself out of what ever fix she's in. Haven't read R is for Ricochet yet, but have it on my Christmas list.

Q Was Great! I Thought it Was One of the Best!!

I couldn't believe some of the negative reviews on this book as I thought it was one of Grafton's better ones.

This time, Kinsey is doing some investigating for two old and ill friends of hers, Dolan and Stacey. They are retired cops and never were able to solve a mystery of a "Jane Doe" that happened so many years back. Who was the girl, and above all, who killed her? Kinsey of course gets involved in this whole scenario, and pulls out all of the stops investigating every little corner.

She starts with schools and dentists to try to find out who "Jane Doe" really was. As her probing continues, she gets more and more concrete facts together, and then becomes suspicous of people during her travels for these facts.

Of course, toward the end, (I don't want to spoil it), Kinsey gets too close to the real killer, and just might get herself into a bad situation she may not be able to get out of without a struggle.

The question is, did Justine, an old friend help in the murder? Or was it Pugee, Johnny Miracle, or Cornell? Kinsey knows it's one of the three. And one of these guys are chasing Kinsey toward the end.

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Better than usual

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series is a long-running string of private eye novels, among the first with a female protagonist. The author's been doing this for a quarter century now, and she's gotten very good at satisfying her fans, but she's only very rarely truly surprising in her plots or characters. This book is different, not because the plot itself is unusual, but because it's based on reality.

A retired coroner and several police detectives in Santa Barbara presented this case to Grafton several years ago: a young woman was stabbed to death and left in a quarry below a highway. No one ever established her identity, let alone getting any serious leads as to her killer, and there's been no new information in the case in the years since.

In the book, fictional characters take up the quest to at least identify the victim, if not the killer, in this case. Two retired policemen who found the body in the first place, and have been haunted by the case ever since, hire Kinsey Millhone to assist them in looking into things, but of course the two of them fade (health problems intervene) and Kinsey winds up searching for her identity, and eventually that of her killer, by herself.

I enjoyed this book, and the realistic aspect of the plot, in that it's based on a real incident, was frankly a hook. I'm curious to know if they have made any progress in the case since the book was written.

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