"S" is for Silence (A Kinsey Millhone Mystery, Book 19)

from readafew

This I have to say was one of the better Kinsey books. I liked the mystery and found myself having a hard time trying to decide which of 3 suspects was really the killer. This was a cold case, someone hired Kinsey to find out what happened to her mom when she disappeared 30+ years previously. Tur...

from bookworm12

A woman named Violet goes missing in the '50s and is never found. Thirty years later Violet's daughter hires Kinsey to try to discover what happened. This was the first time Grafton used a rotating POV. We usually only see the case through Kinsey's eyes, but this time we flash back into the past ...

from dbhutch

#19 in the alphabet mysteries or case files of Kinsey Millhorne. No back history as in the past couple books, but very well done. grafton applies a new technique here, taking a chapter and flashing back 30-40 years in time to reveal part of what went on in each of the characters/suspects lives. V...

from seasidereader

Silence is reminiscent of Grafton's roots in A-F of the series. She went through a dark period mid-alphabet, but I've enjoyed recent books, especially Q and S, with its format of interviews interspersed with Kinsey's investigative notes. I especially like that we aren't certain of everything at t...

from TVNerd95

I both liked and didn't like this story. I like the cold case aspect and I really liked watching how the disappearance of Violet affected each character over time. Sue Grafton did an excellent job of telling the past through the eyes of so many characters that it gave the reader a great deal of s...