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H IS FOR HOMICIDE A Kinsey Millhone Mystery. Reviews
Kinsey Millhone : H IS FOR HOMICIDE A Kinsey Millhone Mystery. Reviews
| 14 of 15 people found the following review helpful  Sue Grafton Presents American Wit and Murder From S. Calif, By Liz "Birdmother" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: H Is for Homicide (Paperback) I loved H is for Homicide and believe that it is Sue Grafton at her finest. As a Sue Grafton fan, I have read all of her books and loved them all but this one really hit the spot.Kinsey Milhone, the main character, sets out to investigate a series of suspicious automobile insurance claims and ends up hanging out in the barrio with the perpetrators. Her entree into this secluded world was an evening spent in a very nasty bar posing as an after-hours tart whose mission is to befriend a for-real gorgeous tart who is the key to the insurance fraud ring. This is not the kind of duty that most of us would sign up for with any amount of enthusiasm. But Kinsey Milhone has guts of iron and nerves of steel. Those guts of iron allow her to swallow vast quantities of greasy restaurant food and the nerves of steel facilitate the endurance of the company of sleaze-bags for record amounts of time. None of the miscreants, be they White or Hispanic are spared her cynical witty... Read more 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful  H is for Hostage, not Homicide, By Paul Skinner (Manassas, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: H Is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback) From the title and the early entry of a dead body, the reader thinks that Kinsey is going to set out to solve a homicide. However, she gets tangled up in a most unusual situation, as a virtual hostage in a Latino run auto insurance fraud ring. This is the only alphabet book I have read where Kinsey is not working for a client, and I guess this is part of the reason I thought this book was sub-par, by Sue Grafton standards. There is little mention of the usual Santa Teresa characters. Even so, this book was an easy page turner, as all other alphabet books are. If this is your first Millhone mystery, don't worry. Most of them are much, much better. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful  Weak Link in a Great Series, By This review is from: H Is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback) I read A is for Alibi years ago and did not get pulled into the series. Years later I read S is for Silence and was hooked. I started to read the series--backwards at first and then jumped to the beginning. I have really enjoyed the books and felt a connection to the heroine (and forgiven Ms. Grafton for making her weigh 118 lbs on her 5'6" frame). However, I agree with the other readers who feel like this is not Grafton at her best. You just can't believe that Kinsey would put herself in these ridiculous positions---belting a police officer to endear herself to a woman she is investigating, remaining in an incredibly (and unbelievable) dangerous situation, to name a few. The dialogue is weak,the sexual situations seem gratutitous, and there is a fair amount of stereotyping of hispanics. But even with these issues, I did finish the book. Grafton at her low point is still a good read! |
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