U Is For Undertow (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)

"one of Grafton's best" according to Carla Schroder. All of the Kinsey Millhone novels are good. Sue Grafton has maintained an unmatched level of quality throughout this entire series. I don't think she gets enough credit for this. In contrast, Marcia Muller's recent Sharon McCone stories have gone off the rails a bit. Bill Pronzini, my other fave private eye novelist, also seems to be getting a little tired. Grafton just keeps on chugging through the alphabet, releasing good fresh Kinsey stories. Writing novels is hard work, and writing a series of this length so well is unprecedent. Ouija said A book with 8,7A book with 8,745 characters Ouija Don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed this installment. But as she did with a few books preceding this, Ms. Grafton has taken to interspersing several different characters' viewpoints to move the plot along. The premise of the book was intriguing, so I stuck with itbut manyou need a PowerPoint chart to keep track of all the characters. Especially when you're reading it on Kindleyou can't just flip back and say "Ohhhh that's who that guy is!" Anyway, the plot is quite interesting and Kinsey is Kinsey, so that's good. The only loose e. 5 characters. Don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed this installment. But as she did with a few books preceding this, Ms. Grafton has taken to interspersing several different characters' viewpoints to move the plot along. The premise of the book was intriguing, so I stuck with itbut manyou need a PowerPoint chart to keep track of all the characters. Especially when you're reading it on Kindleyou can't just flip back and say "Ohhhh that's who that guy is!" Anyway, the plot is quite interesting and Kinsey is Kinsey, so that's good. The only loose e. U is forUnsatisfying La Boheme It was a great readuntil about the middle. There is a chronological error I believe--could you really order a McDonald's burger with tomato and lettuce in 1967? I don't think so. Since the location of the initial "dig" in relation to the various homes in Horton Ravine is so significant, it would have been helpful to have a map with the names of the streets and the locations of the homes. The author describes all Kinsey's travels in almost too much detail. And thenthe ending was justlimp. Almost like it was time for the book to end,

What's a poor girl to do? There's no point in subjecting myself to the reactions of readers and reviewers, since their response is nothing I can control.Parker: People sometimes ask me why I write what I write, and I answer, "Because that's what I know how to do." (Then they say, "Would you please stop?" but I'm sure they're just kidding.) Talk about why you write what you write.Grafton: I write what I write because when I put in my application for a position at Sears, they never got back to me. Since she can know only what I know, I've taken classes in criminal law and self-defense. I'm still hopeful, especially with the Christmas season coming up. Parker's questio

Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial and could identify the killers if he saw them again. It’s way more than a long shot, but he’s persistent and willing to pay cash up front. Gradually, we come to see how everything connects in this twisting, complex, surprise-filled thriller. In essence, he’s the boy who cried wolf. It’s April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone’s thirty-eighth birthday, and she’s alone in her office catching up on paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. More than two decades ago, a four-year-old girl disappeared, and a recent newspaper story about her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. He wants Kinsey’s help in locating the grave and finding the men. Is his story true, or simply one more in a long line of fabrications?Moving effortlessly between the 1980s and the 1960s, and changing points of view as Kinsey pursues witnesses whose accounts often clash. And as always, at the beating heart of her fiction is Kinsey Millhone, a sharp-tongued, observant loner who never forgets that under the thin veneer of civility is a roiling dark side to the soul.. Reluctantly, Kinsey agrees to give him one day of her time.But it isn’t long before she discovers Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth.  Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout