B Is for Burglar [Abridged, Audiobook]

by Sue Grafton

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The divorced ex-cop detective, Kinsey Millhone, works to find a woman's sister. When she discovers that the missing woman's neighbor and bridge partner was found murdered, she is ordered to drop the investigation.

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B is for Burglar is very easy to figure out but the ride is still enjoyable as watch Kinsey solve the case. I don’t feel like the author hid anything from the readers and that we had just as much information as Kinsey. I don’t like books where I feel the main character has more information than the reader. I like it when the reader has just as good of a chance to crack the case as the detective does. B is Burglar is that book and you can really see the wheels in Kinsey’s mind turn.

I liked this case better than the case in A is for Alibi because you got to see just how curious Kinsey can be and get a feel for way of thinking and problem solving. She becomes distracted by a side case but doesn’t let her stop her from doing the show more job she is hired to do. In the book, you also see Kinsey working for someone who she may not like but understands the need to find the answer whether the client wants her to or not.

I love the portrayal of senior adults in the book. Sue Grafton makes them exceptionally diverse. They are energetic, intelligent, complicated, greedy, sexual, courageous and so much more.
I don’t know if I can listen to another book narrated by Judy Kaye because in my mind there is no other voice for Kinsey. Her other characters are well done but there is something about her Kinsey that makes the character real.
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Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky on April 24, 1940. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Louisville in 1961. Her first novel Keziah Dane was published in 1967. Her second novel, The Lolly-Madonna War, was published in 1969 and she adapted it into a screenplay. After that movie was released in show more 1973, she worked intermittently writing for television. A series she created, Nurse, ran for two seasons on CBS in the early 1980s. Her writing career took off when A Is for Alibi was published in 1982 and received the Mysterious Stranger Award. This was the beginning of the Kinsey Millhone Mystery series. B Is for Burglar won the Shamus and Anthony Awards and C Is for Corpse won the Anthony Award. She also received the Cartier Diamond Dagger, the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Bouchercon, and the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. She died from cancer on December 28, 2017 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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B Is for Burglar [Abridged, Audiobook]
Original title
B Is for Burglar
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Do not combine the abridged audiobook with the full-length novel; they are not the same work.

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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