S Is For Silence: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (A Kinsey Millhone Novel)

"S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)" according to Stephen. S is for Silence was a real page turner and a far better read than R is for Richochet. The only thing I don't like is the jumping back and forth with the present and the flashbacks to fill in the story background. I feel it would have been better if it started with the background and continued from there. Violet Sullivan while not the ideal wife and mother is handsdown the most beautiful women in her small town. One fourth of July she suddenly goes missing. Some townspeople say she was ki. Bummed out by new third-person narrative Tom Howe S is for jumping the Shark. I'd enjoyed the previous titles in the series tremendously, but Grafton lost me when she introduced the awkward third-person narrative. It doesn't make sense for one thing—an author's trick of sorts—to fabricate a third-person story that is definitely not "respectfully submitted" by her delightful narrator, Kinsey. This is the kind of cobbled-together storytelling that asks not for our willing suspension of disbelief, but mandates it. Where do the t. D. Plass said Boring flashbacks, no motive for the minor character who did it.. The flashbacks were so long and drawn out that eventually I stopped reading them. Grafton never explained the *motive* for the crime, only *who* did it. And, like other reviewers, I was annoyed that it was such a minor character who Kinsey only talked to once throughout the whole book. I thought for sure it was Chet

While some mysteries that provide the PI's shoe size or most despised food create a forced and intrusive intimacy, a master like Grafton makes the relationship relaxed and reassuring. Millhone's life is modest and familiar, though her love life, now featuring police detective Cheney Phillips, tends to be oddly remote. . However, the utterly illogical and oddly abrupt ending undermines what is otherwise one of the stronger offerings in this iconic series. Constant revelations concerning several absorbing characters allow a terrific tension to build. All rights reserved. This 19th entry (after 2004's R Is for Ricochet) adopts a new convention: Millhone's customary intelligent and occasionally self-deprecating first-person reportage is interrupted by vignettes from the days surrounding the Fourth of July, 34 years earlier, when a hot-blooded young woman named Violet Sullivan disappeared. One million first printing; Literary Guild, BOMC and Mystery Guild

And S is for superb: Kinsey and Grafton at their best.. Some said she was murdered by her husband. S is for silence: the silence of the lost, the silence of the missing, the silence of oblivion.Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, her absence has never been explained or forgotten.Now, thirty-four years later, she wants the solace of closure.In S is for Silence, Kinsey Millhone’s nineteenth excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, S is for surprises as Sue Grafton takes a whole new approach to telling the tale. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she’d run off with a lover. She was never seen again