S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
by Sue Grafton
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Author: Sue GraftonEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2005-12-06
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Book Review: My favourite in the alphabet series - absolutely gripping
Summary: 5 Stars
Sue Grafton's work has matured and this was one of the best books I read this year.
A woman disappeared fifty years ago and Kinsey Millhorne is hired to find out what happened to her. As she unravels a tangle it flips between 1953 and present day. When Violet Sullivan went missing, so did her adored little dog, a new car and $50,000. Was she murdered by her drunken, violent husband? That is the general consensus but the true story is much darker and it appears that Violet's life was entwined with many others.
There are lots of red herrings, twists and turns and I never worked out what had happened on that July 4th in 1953 until the last few pages. It gripping from start to finish. The ending was quite sudden, and this is my only slight niggle with the book.
Kinsey is investigating this as a cold case and the people she interviews give their own version of events, not always complete, not always true.
I am not going to spoil it for other readers by divulging too much but there are parallel sub-plots which I found really rounded out the book for me.
Violet's daughter Daisy was with the babysitter the night of the murder, and I really liked the thread involving the teenage babysitter and her boyfriend, especially what might happen in the future.
Remember, nothing is as it it seems in a small town.
I can't wait for the next one in this series. Sue Grafton is a skilled writer and, like Tami Hoag and now Sandra Brown, she takes time over each book, honing it until it is near perfect. The quality of the writing, plot lines and editing are all excellent.
Summary of S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
S is for silence: the silence of the lost, the silence of the grave, the silence of oblivion.Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy that she left behind, her absence has never been explained or forgotten.
Now, thirty-four years later, she wants the solace of closure.
In S IS FOR SILENCE, Kinsey Millhone's nineteenth excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, S is for surprises as Sue Grafton takes a whole new approach to telling the tale. And S is for superb: Kinsey and Grafton at their best.
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