Beware Spoilers
Reading a Sue Grafton is always a great pleasure and this was one I had been saving for a holiday or the gaps between her new books. I read this one on holiday and it was brilliant - sat in the sunshine, on the beach, under an umbrella, drink in hand and the sea for a quick cool off when required - lovely. Her new novel V is for Vengeance is due out in January (or earlier if I order it from the US which I have been known to do - but this time I may be patient).
Kinsey had just started working out of the office of Lonnie Klingman and due to the death of his usual investigator Kinsey gets brought into the investigation of the murder of Isabelle Barney, six years previously. Klingman is working as defence attorney for the ex-husband of Barney and it appears relatively simple of Kinsey to co-ordinate the statements and depositions. But the case, of course, turns out to be much more complex than that and the investigations end up bringing Kinsey into some of the greatest dangers she has been in for some time.
Kinsey Millhone is the heroine of Grafton's alphabet series and is much loved by the fans of these books, she is a traditional gum shoe in the days before extensive use of computers and mobile phones and yet the stories do not seem dated. Kinsey is very much a woman of today, capable and comfortable with herself, her home is the converted garage of her landlord with whom she has a great friendship and will admit to being slightly in love with Henry. In this book she also gets drawn into the story of Henry's brother William who is in Santa Theresa (a fictional version of Santa Maria) for a short stay and gets involved with the wonderful character who is Rosie, the Hungarian who runs Kinsey's local bar/restaurant.
Ciao
Sue
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Reading challenge 2/21 - currently reading Katherine the Virgin Queen by Jean Plaidy
