Love Causes Women To Stray From Straight-and-Narrow.

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	• R is for Ricochet Sue Grafton G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2004 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 117 reviews view larger image
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SUE GRAFTON

KINSEY MILHONE MYSTERIES ARE A JOY TO READ AND ALWAYS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE

A Good Read

I like all of Sue Grafton's book some more than others. This was one story line in particular that I liked. One complaint I do have is about the beginning to the middle of her books are "slow" for me. Once I get about half way I feel they pick up more and then I cannot put them down. I like that Kinsey finally has a boyfriend and seems to care about her appearance. Sometimes I do get tired of all the extra situations that have nothing to do with the mystery but on the whole it was a good read. I would recommend reading this book.

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Love Causes Women To Stray From Straight-and-Narrow.

What goes around comes around. That is what a ricochet is supposed to do. In real life, R is for Reba who has had to be the fall guy in a crime of embezzelment and spend almost two years of her life in a hostile environment, time enough to think and re-think how she had been used all in the name of love. She finds the perfect way to avenge a love betrayed and denied, one that had gone all wrong in the outside world. Now, she must stay off the drugs and away from her old crowd to survive, and Kinsey is the one to help her to avoid getting back into the old habits.

You possess a very particular type of honesty that's straight forward and compassionate -- and you shouldn't ever let anyone tell you it's not the right way to be. Especially not at this particular moment in time. Whatever comes up now will call for someone with guts, firmness and compassion -- someone who can boldly say what no one has said before, in an inimitable, inarguably honest way. That would be you. Go right ahead and step in. But, remember that words, once spoken, can never be recalled. She'd been leading a wild life and her elderly father in his eighties is unable to help personally, and so he hiresd Kinsey to be her jailer at home to keep her straight and away from temptation. It's not as easy as it appears, as she is already 32 and can think on her own and make her own decisions. In the Cal Institute for Women, she had learned coping and survival skills that only an ex-con is capable of doing. In real life, what you hand out comes back to you eventually and the good guys win sometimes, even when they lose. Reba is the example of what money-laundering can do for a young woman, such as Ms. West who had a good career as an airline attendant and has followed Reba's fate to serve time for loving the wrong man.

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R is for ?

I like the writing of Sue Grafton. I don't mean to be chauvinistic, but she writes like a man. Women novelists generally do not portray sexual intimacy as men do. Grafton does! It is a reoccurring style that I have unexpectedly found in her other books that I have had an opportunity to read. These include A IS FOR ALIBI, N IS FOR NOOSE and S IS FOR SILENCE. So far, I've enjoyed all her writing.

Grafton is a master of the written word. She has the rare artistic skill of moving the reader's mind to another place. Thus, the reader will be able to visualize the characters and their development using the written page. The emerging relationship between Kinsey Millhone and Reba Lafferty seems life-like. There is not an immediate rapport between the detective/babysitter and the socially privilege ex-con. Their relationship develops slowly in accordance to what one would expect in real life. The twist and turns were great and some were totally unexpected.

Unlike her other alphabet books, I didn't understand how she derived the title. For a couple of days after reading the book, I continued to say to myself, "R is for ricochet? R is for ricochet?" I continued to visualize a bullet, than it hit me. Suddenly, I understood the title; however, I can't share the meaning of the title to you because such an exposure will ruin the storyline. Ricochet in this novel, doesn't refer to a bullet.

If you liked her other books, you'll like this one.

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Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege. Abandoned by her rebellious mother when she was an infant, she was the only child of a rich man already in his mid-fifties when she was born, and her adoring father thoroughly spoiled her. Now, at thirty-two, having had many scrapes with the law, she is about to be released on probation from the California Institution for Women, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence for embezzlement. Though Nord Lafferty could deny his daughter nothing, he wasn't there for her when she was brought up on this charge. Now he wants to be sure she stays straight, stays at home and away from the drugs, the booze, the gamblers.

It seems a straightforward assignment for Kinsey: babysit Reba until she settles in, make sure she follows all the niceties of her parole. Maybe a week's work. Nothing untoward-the woman seems remorseful and friendly. And the money is good.

But life is never that simple, and Reba is out of prison less than twenty- four hours when one of her old crowd comes circling round.

R is for Ricochet. And R is for romance: love gone right, love gone wrong, and matters somewhere in between.

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