P.I. Kinsey Milhone reluctantly looks into the affairs of a murdered colleague, finding a coded list of women's names that leads to art thievery and murder in Sue Grafton's latest alphabet mystery X.
Grafton has written a long, admirable private eye series, and the latest is a very solid entry.
Longtime fans will see continued character growth (although I could have done without a lengthy subplot about Milhone's landlord's interest in water conservation) and several ties back to the last novel in the series. New fans will find an interesting mystery that takes place in the pre-internet late 80s, when being a private eye meant typewriters, index cards, phone books, and a lot more old-fashioned legwork.
I listened to this on audiobook from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana.
Grafton has written a long, admirable private eye series, and the latest is a very solid entry.
Longtime fans will see continued character growth (although I could have done without a lengthy subplot about Milhone's landlord's interest in water conservation) and several ties back to the last novel in the series. New fans will find an interesting mystery that takes place in the pre-internet late 80s, when being a private eye meant typewriters, index cards, phone books, and a lot more old-fashioned legwork.
I listened to this on audiobook from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana.
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