P Is for Peril: A Kinsey Milhone Mystery (Sue Grafton)
by Sue Grafton
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Author: Sue GraftonReader: Judy Kaye
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 2001-06-05
ISBN: 0375416846
Publisher: Random House Audio
Book Reviews of P Is for Peril: A Kinsey Milhone Mystery (Sue Grafton)
Book Review: Perilousless
Summary: 3 Stars
Kinsey is still on target as the well woven individulist, who follows her own complex cloth. But, the story dropped a major stitch. - The peril was not due to Kinsey's mis-selection of a case for detecting, but the ordinary consequence of seeking a new office and the subsequent knowledge this action brings. After debating her options with Henry, her beloved landlord, Kinsey leaves her decision in doubt. So unknowningly, Henry puts himself into the "peril" and it is along this course that the chosing of peril SHOULD have been given more life and scare for both he and Kinsey. Additionally, a bit more NEW information of Kinsey's past/future is due all of her devoted fans. Grafton is too good to have pressed this jacket so shiney and thin. Maybe her stated decision to complete the alphabet in 18-month stints, rather than annually, is a decison well made. I await Q is for Quarry, because every at bat did not produce a home run, even for Sammy Sousa. (SMILE!)
Summary of P Is for Peril: A Kinsey Milhone Mystery (Sue Grafton)
Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Theresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed content with his life. At the time of his disappearance, he was running a nursing care facility where both the staff and the patients loved him. He adored his second wife, Crystal, and doted on their two-year-old son.It wasn?t Crystal who called Kinsey. It was Purcell?s ex-wife, Fiona. Everything about their meeting made Kinsey uneasy. Fiona?s manner was high-handed and her expectations unrealistic. Kinsey?s instincts told her to refuse the job, yet she ended up saying, ?I?ll do what I can, but I make no promises.?
It was a decision she?d live to regret.
Pursuing the mysterious disappearance of Purcell, Kinsey crashes into a wall of speculation. It seems everyone has a theory. The cops think he went on a bender and is too ashamed to come home. Fiona is sure he ran off to get away from Crystal, and Crystal is just as sure he?s dead. The staff at the nursing home is convinced he?s been kidnapped, and one of his daughters, having consulted a psychic, is certain that he?s trapped in a dark place, though she doesn?t know where. Kinsey is awash in explanations and sorely lacking in facts. Then pure chance leads her in another direction, and she soon finds herself in a dangerous shadow land, where duplicity and double-dealing are the reality and, with the truth glinting elusively out of reach, she must stake her life on a thin thread of intuition.
P Is for Peril: Kinsey Millhone?s latest venture into the darker side of the human soul.
When Dowan Purcell, a respected physician who operates a nursing home, disappears, his ex-wife hires Santa Teresa PI Kinsey Millhone to look into it. Fiona Purcell is still seething over Dow's affair and subsequent marriage to Crystal, a former stripper, yet they're still friends, and she seems worried. But when his body is discovered, she's among the suspects. Both of Dow's wives, at least one of his business partners, and perhaps even Crystal's teenage daughter had motives to kill.
While in her most recent adventures (N Is for Noose, O Is for Outlaw) Kinsey has acquired new digs, an extended family, and a few more gray hairs, in this one (which takes place some time in the mid-'80s), she's 36, still living in the remodeled garage that was blown up in an earlier novel. Easier than a facelift, and while Sue Grafton is a solid enough writer to pull it off, dedicated Kinsey fans will miss the more complex and multidimensional character who aged so ruefully and interestingly in the '90s. This isn't Grafton's strongest case; it's hard to care about any of Purcell's women or his associates. More exciting is the secondary plot, which involves a handsome landlord who offers Kinsey the new office space she's been seeking and turns out to be a lot more trouble than she bargained for. Despite its somewhat plodding pace and the echo of a more evolved heroine that rings through its pages, Grafton's many fans will probably shoot P Is for Peril right to the top of the bestseller list. --Jane Adams
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