Kinsey Milhone Mystery: W Is for Wasted (Hardcover)

from shelleyraec

I think it was in the early 1990's that I first discovered Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series, and I immediately raced through the alphabet then waited impatiently each year for the next installment. W is for Wasted is the 23rd novel and Grafton has confirmed there are just three to go. Despite...

from asomers

Even though I sometimes get impatient waiting for the next letter of the alphabet, I always end up thinking that it was worth the wait. Sue Grafton truly crafts her novels. There are other authors who churn out one or two a year, but with those you get a short story stretched out to fill a book.L...

from reading_fox

Much the same as all the others - the time lag discontinuity is really starting to tell now. Fortunately Grafton adds a few gratuitous reminders so that we remember it's set in '88 rather than the present day. the anachronisms of hunting for change to use a payphone kiosk must strike younger read...

from Kathy89

Kinsey's called to the morgue to identify a man who she doesn't know but has her name and business address in his pocket. Turns out he was on his way to see her and was a distant cousin who had rewritten his will leaving 600,000 million dollars to her much to the dismay of his disinherited childr...

from polywogg

BOTTOM-LINE: Great plot twist, too long a story for what's there. . PLOT OR PREMISE: Two deaths get Kinsey off and running - the apparent mugging death of a low-rent private investigator known for cutting corners and a John Doe homeless guy who died with Kinsey's business address in his pocket. ....