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V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Mystery) [Hardcover]






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    Kinsey Millhone : V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Mystery) [Hardcover] Reviews


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    106 of 120 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars Kinsey Millhone is back with a vengeance!, November 14, 2011
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    L. Dean Murphy (Orlando, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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    Following U IS FOR UNDERTOW, Kinsey Millhone is back with a vengeance! She gets a 38th birthday "punch in the face and busted nose," in May 1988. A cake would have been nice. Kinsey is a pragmatist, "a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first."

    Reluctantly shopping at an upscale retailer, Kinsey spies Audrey Vance stealing expensive silk PJs. The civic-minded P.I. discovers that the woman is in cahoots with another and reports them both. Vance is arrested, while the other scofflaw nearly runs Kinsey down in the parking garage with a Mercedes. Vance is later found dead, an apparent suicide, but homicide is soon suspected.

    In a parallel plot, Lorenzo Dante, Jr., known simply as Dante, is a loan shark with alleged Mafia ties. Dante has quite an inferno of illicit businesses burning --- and a red-hot romance with a powerful attorney's wife. One of those enterprises is a highly organized ring of shoplifters, whose kingpin was... Read more
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    60 of 68 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gets better and better!, November 14, 2011
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    Sue Grafton's V is for Vengeance is a thrill a minute. We start out with a prologue about a young man named Phillip Lanahan in August 1986. We quickly find out that Philip likes poker and loses money. Going to a loan shark named Dante he's given a week to repay his loan. Unfortunately for him things end badly.

    The story shifts gears to Kinsey and May 5 1988 (for those in the know Kinsey's birthday). Than we switch to several weeks before her birthday and a few weeks after the events in U is for Undertow. Kinsey while shopping witnesses a shoplifter and at the end is almost getting run over. Somehow Kinsey by witnessing a minor incident becomes embroiled in something bigger than she imagines.

    Throughout the novel the point of view shifts between Kinsey, Dante, and Nora (a rich housewife tiring of her husband).

    Grafton has gone back and forth with third and first person in her most recent novels. However its my humble opinion that this is the... Read more
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    63 of 72 people found the following review helpful
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite up to her usual standard but still good in parts., November 17, 2011
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    Soferet "soferet2" (Jerusalem 93715 Israel) - See all my reviews
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    There is something bleak in the new Kinsey adventure. At 38, the detective is lonelier than ever. Maybe this is why she lets herself get involved in two apparently unconnected affairs, neither likely to bring in the big bucks. The pace is slow, at times bordering on sluggish. While she plods on, two other characters are brought in. We sense that there will ultimately be a connection, but do not care greatly. Of course, towards the end everything fits neatly - too neatly? with some highly improbable developments. To tell the truth, by that time one just wants it over and done with. Yet this is not a bad book, and a host of well loved characters make cameo appearances (though we could do with less details about Rosie's cooking).
    What can I say, I shall buy the next Sue Grafton...
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