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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Kinsey Millhone investigates a missing elder woman. Also has to hire private bodyguard as contract on her life is taken by hitman. ( )This one was a big improvement over the last. Not much more to say than that"¦ A rich, complex, and gripping tale in which Kinsey's grit is tested to its utmost as she unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayl and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. G is for Guild and Guile, for Greed and Grief and the Grim Reaper. And also for Good, very, very good indeed. And don't overlook the romance angle; just enough to be interesting. All of the "Alphabet" Sue Crafton books are pleasurable reading. Time fillers that you can put down and pick back up without having to remember a convoluted plot or time warps of character studies. Kinsey is sent to the Mojave Desert by a client to find her missing mother. At the same time a convict with a grudge takes out a contract on Kinsey and she gets a bodyguard. This was an interesting read, but the series is beginning to get a bit too formulaic for me. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0449219364, Mass Market Paperback)"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 (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:20 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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