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What Makes a Family

L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton

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Have to say that this one was pretty good though the usual suspects are not in it much (Rosie, Henry, William, etc.). We have Kinsey following someone who stole something from a neighbor/client’s home and then gets caught up with I guess you can just say are a family of not so bright thieves. Kinsey is still prepping for Rosie and William’s wedding in this one. She is asked by Henry to do a favor for the family of an old neighbor of both of them which causes her to go down a long winding path of ill gotten loot […]

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7/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:148 |

Solid Entry in the World of Kinsey Millhone

K is for Killer by Sue Grafton

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Sigh. I needed a comfort read and even though I have read this book many many times, I was happy to re-read it again. I have this book in hardcover so it was perfect to read as I sat by the pool on Sunday afternoon. Grafton takes Kinsey through the nightlife in Santa Teresa. She feels adrift as she investigates who could have killed Lorna Kepler. With Henry being away visiting his siblings she feels even more adrift. I liked how Grafton chose to end this book and the introduction of the character of Cheney Phillips. “K is for Killer” […]

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7/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:147 |

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn’t mean there’s a point.

C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton

This is Really Happening by Erin Chack

Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik

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C is for Corpse – 3/5 Stars The third Kinsey Milhone mystery, and probably the first one that I thought was pretty good. The other two were fine, and only fine, but what was hard to discern about those was who is this narrator and what does she do, want, feel etc. This one has more personality to it and I am beginning to better understand more about her. It begins with a workout partner/guy at the gym hiring her to investigate a devastating carwreck he was in months prior that left his best friend dead and his own brain […]

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6/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:334 |

Kinsey, Still Working It

J is for Judgment by Sue Grafton

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Wow. This was a really good one to sink your teeth into. We have Kinsey showing why she is really a good investigator and her also having to deal with changes to her professional life. I thought the writing was great as well as the flow of the book. The ending comes with a very nice gut punch too. What is great though is that some of these characters pop up in a later book. In “J is for Judgment” Kinsey is asked to investigate if Wendell Jaffe is still alive. This is an issue because years ago, Wendell Jaffe […]

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1/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

You don’t kill someone you’re indifferent to

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton

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Sue Grafton died in December of last year. I was familiar with her books from the gimmicky titles but I had never picked one up. I figured if the titles were dorky then the story would be too. After reading some of the tributes to Grafton and Kinsey Millhone, her protagonist, and decided that this would be a great book to kick off CBR10 with. Grafton’s protagonist is a private investigator in California who is, of course, a former police officer. She is cute, blonde and competent. She has some baggage and a drinking problem but is doing alright. She […]

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2/1/2018 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

X is for xtremely dull

X by Sue Grafton

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X:  The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss… I had read quite a few of the alphabet books when they were first published, and I think I got to about the letter J or so when I drifted away from the series.  I remember enjoying them at the time, but my reading interests shifted onto different things.  I was saddened to hear of Sue Grafton’s recent passing, so I decided to pick up one of her more recent efforts for old time’s sake.  And unfortunately, this book just wasn’t up to the standard set by […]

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1/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

C is for Corpse

C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton

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I have always wanted to read in order Sue Grafton’s alphabet series.  I started this fall with A is for Alibi, followed by B, and then things got busy and the series fell off my radar. When I heard about Sue Grafton’s death, (seriously, fuck cancer) and the alphabet now ending with Y, I was inspired to pick it back up again.  Which is how two days into the new year it became my first cannonball read. The lead character, Kinsey Millhone, a tough, smart, compassionate PI, her landlord Henry, and the ever fantastic Rosie (who owns the Hungarian restaurant […]

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1/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

I wish the alphabet had more letters.

Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton

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This is the second-to-last Kinsey Millhone book that we’ll probably ever get, and that makes me sad. Eleven years ago, when I was home with an infant and a toddler and living next door to a tiny library, I picked up a ratty paperback copy of A is for Alibi on a whim. And I became obsessed. I read every single one of Sue Grafton’s “alphabet mysteries” that featured this weird, cranky PI named Kinsey Millhone. And I loved them. I loved Kinsey’s bizarre little universe out in her tiny California town. Terrible things happened that required her attention, and […]

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11/27/2017 's CBR9 Review No:59 |


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