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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:"One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . 'G' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can't wait for 'H' ." �Louise Bernikow, Cosmopolitan Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list. It's the last that convinces Kinsey even she can't handle whoever's been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey's body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it's over, she'll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . . "Wit is the most versatile weapon in Sue Grafton's well-stocked arsenal, and she uses it with disarming precision. . . . Grafton excels in this milieu." �Newsweek "The story is complex; the body-count high; the sexual encounters feverish; and the villains chilling�in another can't-put-it-down outing for this talented author." �Kirkus Reviews.… (more)
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The book isn't my favorite in the series, but unlike the others, it features the sharp-tongued detective having to ask someone for help. It's not often we see her in such a vulnerable position. It's a fun light read that won't be hard to get through.
Once again, being paranoid isn't all that bad. Millhone doesn't stop working just because someone is out to get her... Is there a connection between her latest case and the psychopath who wants to off her?
And more to the
This is definitely my favorite book of the first half of the series. There's a lot of personal stuff going on, and
Intertwined (slightly) with this is a completely
In January of this year, (2016), I vowed to get caught all the way up on this series by the end of the year. Naturally, I got side tracked, but I’m still determined to achieve my goal. So,
Kinsey is hired by a frail, sickly women to check on her mother because she has not heard from her in a while. Sounds like a simple enough task, and it is, at first. The old woman is found, placed in a facility, but up and disappears yet again, only this time she’s not so lucky.
In the meantime, Kinsey is informed she could be the target of an assassin she helped put away, requiring her to have a bodyguard, one she becomes quite close before all is said and done.
This chapter in the series seemed super short for some reason. I read it in under an hour, but not because it was impossible to put down. There was a lot of action, some romance, but the case was a little murky and I had to read the last few chapters twice in order to make sure I had understood it right.
The assassin on Kinsey’s trail proved to be the more exciting part of the book and the irony of it made this story as hardboiled as any 1940’s detective story. This side story is the reason it upped my star rating, otherwise this one would have fallen rather flat.
Overall this one gets a 3.5 rounded to 4
Onward to H is Homicide
She isn't too concerned about the hit man and heads out into the desert to find the missing woman. After not being successful in that endeavour, she is returning home when a pickup truck runs her off the road and also leaves her with a bullet hole in her tire. Now she is worried and contacts another P.I.,Robert Dietz, for advice. He immediately takes on the role of her body guard.
The case becomes one of Dietz and Kinsey dodging assassination attempts while also trying to find Mrs. Gersh's mother.
I do really get through unabridged audiobooks this quickly. As long as my workplace keeps paying me to spend hours doing brainless
Decent book, worth celebrating her birthday.
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PLOT OR PREMISE:
Happy 33rd Birthday to Kinsey! Her apartment is ready, she gets hired to go check on someone's mom, and she's on a hit list.
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WHAT I LIKED:
As always, Grafton adds some local colour wherever Kinsey goes -- Kinsey gets to a small
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WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE:
Dietz is so hard-core professional with the security side, it feels almost like the Plum series where Ranger is awesome and Plum is a cupcake. It reduces Kinsey at times to passive acceptance and direction, and it doesn't fit well with most of her character.
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DISCLOSURE:
I received no compensation, not even a free copy, in exchange for this review. I am not personal friends with the author, nor do I follow her on social media.
I think I’m half in love with Henry Pitts just as Kinsey is. His devotion and caring for her is so genuine and heartfelt. I truly think he is someone she can completely be herself with and someone who loves her no matter what.
In G is for Gumshoe, we get our first glimpse of Kinsey working with a partner and I think I prefer Kinsey on her. I tried to like the Dietz character but he seemed to have a very dark side we only got a glimpse of and I didn’t buy him as a romantic interest for Kinsey at all.
Judy Kaye as usual is the only voice of series there needs to be. I have no words for how well she is as a narrator.
This installment, "G" is for Gumshoe, does show some dated perspectives.