"V" is for Vengeance

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Call Number: Mystery / Grafton, Sue, Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / General / Grafton, Sue
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Grafton, Sue	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Grafton, Sue	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Grafton, Sue	4-week checkout	On Shelf
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Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / General / Grafton, Sue	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024

California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiance,́ several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.

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good submitted by shailu on August 1, 2011, 3:47pm inspirational

Waiting for W submitted by Sara W on July 31, 2012, 6:58am V is for Vengeance was not my favorite Sue Grafton mystery. Involving shoplifters, organized crime, and murder - it's a little tightly packed. And Kinsey falls into it all by pure coincidence. I prefer to see her doing her job rather than getting into a jam through her curiosity - she's not Curious George, she'a s kick-ass private eye with great instincts!

The use of flashbacks interspersed with present-day narration that I found to be an interesting device when she started it a few books ago is getting old for me. I liked discovering information through Kinsey's eyes, but now the reader sometimes knows more than Kinsey does at a given moment. That can be frustrating.

This book just seemed a little more disjointed and the denouement a little more forced. Of course I won't give up on Kinsey or Sue Grafton, I just hope she's saving some of her old spark to make her last few books in the series shine the way the earliest entries in the alphabet series did.

A good letter submitted by mjanen on July 12, 2014, 9:40pm Fairly standard Kinsey fair, but satisfying.

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