Q Is For Quarry (Sue Grafton)

Q Is For Quarry (Kinsey Millhone Mystery) This book was from start to finish a real gripper. I have read all the previous books from A to Q. This book was different from the previous books because Kinsey worked with two police detectives one from Santa Teresa Police and the other from the Sheriff's department. She work well with them even though she normally a loner. Both were older men very much her senior. They both had very serious health issues, one Lt Dolan had heart trouble and the other was cancer patient in remission. Lt Dolan did end up. Q is for Quarry - A Kinsey Millhone Novel This was the best book in Sue Grafton's alphabet murder mystery series yet. It was based on a real life unsolved homicide that occurred in Santa Barbara County in August 1969. It included illustrations of how the young woman may have looked created by a retired medical illustrator. Even thought the plot was fictional, Sue included many details of this case. Sue hopes that someone will recognize the young woman and come forward with information about her. Fantastic!. Six Stars Mr. D This story will sharpen your skills as an investigator. Grafton's wit and humor are tops. She develops her characters with the skills of a sculpture who brings them to life in the mind's eye. Any reader with imagination becomes part of the investigation that follows the reopening of a cold-case that begs for justice. I've been reading Sue Grafton since "A is for Apple" (just kidding) and I would have never been able to pick a favorite except for one night I fell asleep while reading "Q" and dreamed that

While the unlikely trio of Millhone and her cranky geezer sidekicks offers a few chuckles, the inner reaches of Kinsey's soul remain largely inaccessible to her as well as to the reader, which will probably not bother most of Kinsey's or Grafton's many admirers. They enlist Kinsey's help in identifying the victim, a young woman who was murdered and left for dead in the old quarry of the title. --Jane Adams. Neither they nor Kinsey expect that reopening an old case will incite the killer to strike again--not once, but twice. And while the real case of the still-unidentified victim that inspired this fictionalized scenario continues to languish in the cold case file in the Santa Barbara sheriff's office, Grafton's solution is as plausible as any. Two old, ai

The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were mulitple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. They will, they tell her, find closure if they can just identify the victim. Old and ill, they need someone to do the legwork for them, and they turn to Kinsey Millhone. Kinsey is intrigued by the challenge and agrees to work with them. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. After months of investigation, the case remained unsolved.That was eighteen years ago. Now, the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case. A Kinsey Millhone mysteryShe was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what beings with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.