Q is for Quizzical (2. 5 stars)

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	• Q Is for Quarry Sue Grafton, 2002 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 168 reviews view larger image
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Q is for Quizzical (2. 5 stars)

This was only my second Kinsey Millhone novel, as I happened across a copy of this as well as one of the later books. I didn't find my lack of familiarity with Kinsey's previous cases (and supporting cast) to be a problem. However, I found this story dragged on too long, for very little payoff. The new information we learned about Kinsey's family was interesting as far as it went, but I can only assume it was a 'teaser' for later volumes.
I can't compare/contrast or judge Grafton's writing style too much, but I thought she overdid some of the descriptive paragraphs, as well as the repeated, mundane activities(numerous fast-food meals, for example). While there's nothing wrong with fleshing out a story this way, those little 'digressions' took over the story after a while.
'Quarry' just never really got off the ground. Too many 'shady, small-town' stereoypes, and nothing to really hook the reader, other than the murder being an 'old'(cold) case. Maybe tying the 1969 date to something more historically interesting(like the Manson or Zodiac murders) would have helped. Grafton should have spent more time coming up with fresher characters, rather than concocting clever fictional names for obscure desert towns.
I didn't mind the two 'Statler and Waldorf' detectives, though their repeated failing health and 'hospital' references were overdone.
I won't write off the 'Alphabet Mysteries' just yet...'T is for Trespass' will be my next review as soon as I finish it!

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Q IS FOR QUARRY

I think this is one of her better books.
Have read the series up to this one, and like them all.

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great series

As good as she always is. Got here in a good time and in great condition

reviews: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved.

That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case. Old and ill, they need someone to help with their legwork and they turn to Kinsey Millhone. They will, they tell her, find closure if they can just identify the victim. Kinsey is intrigued and agrees to the job.

But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.

Q is for Quarry is based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, and Grafton's interest in the case has generated renewed police efforts. During the past year, the body was exhumed and a nationally known forensic artist did the facial reconstruction that appears in the closing pages of Q is for Quarry. Both Grafton and the dedicated members of the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department are hoping the photograph will trigger memories that may lead to a positive identification.

On the day Jane Doe was reburied, many officers were at the gravesite. "It's eerie," Grafton writes, "to think about the power this woman still has. Here we are, thirty-three years later, and she still wants to go home."

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