The second reading was simply delightful!

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	• "G" is for Gumshoe (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) Sue Grafton Henry Holt and Co., 1990 - 262 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.

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.

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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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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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"G" is for Gumshoe is:

A rich, complex, and gripping tale in which Kinsey's grit is tested to its utmost as she unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "G" is for guilt and guile, for greed and grief and the Grim Reaper. And "G" is for good: very, very good indeed.

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