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None.  Mrsbaty | May 13, 2013 |  As I continue on in the Milhone series, the endings keep getting more and more disappointing. Everything up until about the last 20 pages of the book is great, and then it's like Grafton runs out of energy and just slaps something together. Time to take a break before I keep reading on in the series... (  ) xitomatl | Apr 6, 2013 | Love Kinsey. Can't remember enough to distinguish one book from another in the alphabet series. Some are better than others. All are enjoyable. ( ) AnnB2013 | Mar 14, 2013 | ALPHBET SERIES rustyoldboat | May 28, 2011 | Books in the Alphabet series go one of two ways. Either they are completely about the mystery or the mystery is in the background somewhere. L is for Lawless is one of the books that is more criminal joyride than mystery. Kinsey is wrapped up in a pro-bono case for a friend of a friend. Unfortunately, she doesn't use many detecting skills while investigating this case. More often than not, secondary characters give her whatever information she needs without her even asking. She's lied to a lot, but she doesn't seem to even figure that out on her own. The liars eventually confess each lie when the correct information is necessary. I love this series, but L is for Lawless isn't nearly the best of the bunch. The highlight of the entire book was Henry's brothers and sister visiting for Rosie and William's wedding, but we only got to see a lot of them in the first few chapters. L is for Lawless isn't a book I would recommend to anyone other than a series completist. It's not a bad book, but there are far better ones in the series if you're only going to read a few. ( ) TequilaReader | Apr 12, 2010 | no reviews | add a review Is contained inJ is for Judgment / K is for Killer / L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton The Alphabet Mysteries: A-S by Sue Grafton The Alphabet Mysteries: A-T by Sue Grafton All Books from the Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton The Alphabet Mysteries: E-F, I, L-S by Sue Grafton Omnibus: "G is for Gumshoe" to "S is for Silence" by Sue Grafton
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0449221490, Mass Market Paperback)Both new readers and old fans will welcome this 12th Kinsey Milhone adventure in the "A" is for Alibi series by Sue Grafton. In this case, Kinsey agrees to do a favor for a friend of a friend and gets herself into so much trouble that she promises at the outset never to do such a thing again without careful consideration.Henry Pitt, her longtime landlord asks her to help a fellow neighbor find evidence that his grandfather served in the military during the Second World War. With such proof, the man can be decently buried, courtesy of the U.S. government. It seems such a simple thing, but with Kinsey, it rarely is. Before long she finds herself entangled with an eccentric and quarrelsome family as well as a long lost buddy who has turned up just in time to get himself beaten up in a robbery attempt of the alleged veteran's apartment. It seems there is a reason the Armed Services have no record of the dead man's service. Kinsey sets out to determine what he might have been doing instead of fighting against the Japanese and why someone might think his shabby apartment worth a burgle. Typical of the series, the mystery is not the central point of the story, but rather a starting point for Kinsey to become embroiled in a suspenseful (and delightful) search-and-rescue operation, usually against her better judgement. In this case, a gun-toting, arthritic octogenarian and revelations of the inner workings of bargain-rate motels are all part of the adventure. This is an easy and enjoyable read, and a solid addition to Grafton's string of alphabetical hits. --K.A. Crouch (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:11:24 -0500) PI Kinsey Millhone of California goes looking for the loot of a $500,000 robbery, an assignment filled with danger as one of the robbers is a psychopath. By the author of "K" Is for Killer. |
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Her landlord Henry asks her to help a neighbor down the street with a little problem of trying to get death benefits from the army for his grandfather who served in Burma in WWII and has now died. Kinsey is willing to help because she's taking some time off from her usual PI work to help Rosie and William get ready for their wedding on Thanksgiving. One little roadblock, the army has never heard of his grandfather.
When a stranger from the grandfather's past shows up and then the apartment he was living in gets vandalized, they realize there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye. A chase begins that leads Kinsey to Dallas and eventually to Louisville. All she wants to do is get home in time for the big wedding.
Through the book, Kinsey is still struggling with the idea that she has family that would like to get to know her. Family dynamics are foreign to her. Since the people she is on the run with are a father and daughter, the whole idea of "family" is an underlying theme. Will Kinsey be willing to reach out to hers or not? (