The second reading was simply delightful!

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	• "G" is for Gumshoe (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) Sue Grafton St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The second reading was simply delightful!

I've just read 'G is for Gumshoe' a second time and, without doubt, Miss Grafton has a pinnache for spinning excellent reads. Her 'funky' attitude about life makes nearly every offering in this series more fun that its predecessor. I love Kinsey Millhone and Sue Grafton.

Yay Kinsey!

In this particular mystery, Kinsey is rather forced to play the girl who has to find the dotty old woman and take her to a nursing home. Sounds like the basic babysitting gig (and Kinsey isn't exactly impressed with it) but Grafton, of course, makes the story more interesting by adding a tale of old vengeance against our Kinsey. Grafton throws in delightful temporary characters that are just as real as Ms. Millhone and plenty of exciting cat-and-mouse moments.

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Loved it

I've read all of this series in the past month or so and have loved each and every one of them. I finished the last one that I have (S is for Silence) a few days ago and am longing to read T - Z. I miss the characters as I feel as though they have become my family and friends! I will be so sad when Ms Grafton stops writing about Kinsey and her cases.

Indifferent

This was the first book I picked up for the Alphabet Mysteries. I listened to the audio book version of this story. I was told that each story is basically a "stand alone" story, not really relying on the previous one to build on it, so I just dove right in with the letter G, because that was the CD audio book they had my library. ;) I wanted to love the book and I wanted to really be interested in the story. But I really wasn't. It was interesting enough, and it had enough of a story and a mystery, but it seemed like a very convoluted way to get to the story, too many switch-a-roos and stories that seemed to sprout out of nowhere. I can't say I hated the story, but I certainly didn't fall in love with it. Sometimes the narrator of the audio book makes a difference, and I didn't find the woman's voice who was narrating the book to be very pleasant. It was almost whiskey smoker sounding, so it didn't sound like it was coming from a 30ish year old woman, but rather a 50ish bar hopper. The narrator was very excited when the story called for it, so I have to give her credit for her enthusiasm when reading particularly exciting passages. I have 3 more books on CD from this series, so I am hoping that one of them really hooks me and I love it. I have high hopes because it wasn't a bad story, just not a great story.

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For #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton?s PI Kinsey Milhone, danger comes with the job?but she never expects to find herself at the top of a hit man?s list?

G IS FOR GAME?

When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn?t heard from in six months, it?s not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girl?s gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy money?or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened.

G IS FOR GUN?

Kinsey doesn?t know what to make of Agnes?s vague fears and bizarre ramblings, but she?s got her own worries. It seems Tyrone Patty, a criminal she helped put behind bars, is looking to make a hit. First, Kinsey?s car is run off the road, and then days later, she?s almost gunned down, setting in motion a harrowing cat and mouse game?

G IS FOR GUMSHOE

So Kinsey decides to hire a bodyguard. With PI Robert Dietz watching her 24/7, Kinsey is feeling on edge?especially with their growing sexual tension. Then, Agnes dies of an apparent homicide, Kinsey realizes the old lady wasn?t so senile after all?and maybe she was trying to tell her something? Now Kinsey?s determined to learn the truth?even if it kills her.

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