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Summary: Cold Case file
Review: A woman wanted to know why her recently dead husband was under stress. She was willing to hire Kinsey Milhone to find the reason. Her husband Tom Newquist had not been sleeping well. The job was in the vicinity of Carson City. It was the sort of place where people might wear a combination of snow and western clothing. The widow of the dead man, Selma, was very helpful. Tom Newquist did not smile. In his picture he had the look of a police officer. Before his death by heart attack he was not necessrily a healthy man. He drank, he smoked, he was overweight, and he was strait-laced. He saw the world in rigid terms. He was a good investigator by all reports. His sister believed he tried too hard to please his wife who was a snob. Kinsey was assaulted and felt herself going into shock. She received help getting to the hospital. I did not realize that investigators liked to dig into old unsolved cases, but apparently they do. Tom Newquist was probably involved in such a venture when he died. Uncharacteristically he ate away from home just prior to his death. An unidentified woman was seen within a quarter mile of his pick up truck parked by the side of the road. The break in the case came from someone in Nota Lake who believed the dead man had an interest in a female investigator from another sheriff's department.
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Summary: Not Kinsey's best outing
Review: By now, Grafton's heroine, Kinsey Millhone, is well established amongst the ranks of female detectives. This book possibly isnlt the best of the series. I found it a little disappointing in that it plods somewhat and I wasnlt at all guessing to the end - to me the perpetrator stood out a mile off. I found some of the peripheral characters just plain boring.
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Summary: Not Kinsey's best outing
Review: By now, Grafton's heroine, Kinsey Millhone, is well established amongst the ranks of female detectives. This book possibly isnlt the best of the series. I found it a little disappointing in that it plods somewhat and I wasnlt at all guessing to the end - to me the perpetrator stood out a mile off. I found some of the peripheral characters just plain boring.
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Summary: Sue Grafton and Kinsey Milhone never disappoint!!!
Review: I eagerly await each of Grafton's alphabet series with excitement. In fact, I have read each twice - just finishing "M is for Malice" before "N" was released. So often we wait for a book or a movie sequel and are disappointed. This has yet to be the case with Grafton. "N" is fast-paced, has beautiful descriptive narratives of the Lake Nota area, is chuck full of interesting and unique characters and is interspersed with the Kinsey humor and insights that we all know and love. These book are so involving that I found myself missing Santa Theresa and Henry along with Kinsey. And, even though I had an inkling of the killers identity, I didn't care because the plot is so skillfully written and I become so involved in Kinsey's life. I read a lot of mysteries and Grafton is by far the best. If you haven't started these books, please do. You won't regret it!!
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Summary: **Shocked**
Review: I had to read this book for a literature class and like most reading assignments, I was not looking forward to it. Once I got a couple pages into the book, I could not put it down. The crazy situations Kinsey gets herself into made it hard to stop flipping through the pages. The intense description Grafton uses on Kinsey's injuries turned my stomach. I was in total suspense up to the last page. I would recommend this book to any one! I truly enjoyed it, I hope you do too!
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Summary: I come at this from a peculiar angle...
Review: I have read a number of Grafton's alphabet mysteries and I found them to be good but a bit tedious (3 stars or so). However, I've taken to listening to them as books on tape and have found them to be quite enjoyable. Judy Kaye does a fantastic job as the voice of Kinsey (she has her wry sense of humor nailed - her voice perfectly matches Grafton's words - whovever cast Kaye as the voice of Milhone should get 5 stars) and I find the books to be quite enjoyable.
I do agree with other reviewers that the ending was a bit clunky, but the rest of the book built up enough tension and drama to still give the book an above-average rating in my estimation.
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Summary: Not one of Grafton's better efforts.
Review: I think most of us here rate a book on the basis of our own tastes--what kinds of books we personally enjoy reading. Sue Grafton's alphabet series really isn't about non-stop action or heart-stopping adventure. What it about is one of the most quirky, engaging characters in modern mysteries: Kinsey Milhone. I've read the whole series to date, and in the process I have come to know and care about Kinsey. As each book comes out, I look forward to finding out what Kinsey is up now; and just as importantly, how she sees her life and the other characters that populate her world. Sue Grafton has crafted Kinsey with a deft touch and a generous dollop of wry humor. For my reading tastes, "N is for Noose" is another delightful installment in the series. I just hope Sue Grafton will start in on numbers when she runs out of alphabet, so this series can go on and on.
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Summary: Kinsey does a favor for Dietz
Review: Kinsey has just come back from playing nurse to her sometime-lover Dietz who has undergone knee replacement surgery. As a favor to him, she promises to look at a case in the small town of Nota Lake, where a detective named Tom Newquist has just died of a heart attack. His widow feels that her husband died under suspicious circumstances and that she cannot rest until she finds out what really happened. Kinsey decides to take the case and begins interviewing the local people who might be involved. They turn out to be an unfriendly bunch and before she knows it, she suffers some injuries at the hands of a mysterious attacker. That's just the beginning, and before long Kinsey feels like a real outcast among the citizens of the tiny town. She continues to investigate to see what really prompted Tom's death and whether there was foul play involved. This book is a little more predictable than some in the series, but Kinsey's adventures always make for a good read.
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Summary: She?s Still Poking her Nose in Trouble
Review: Kinsey takes a seemingly routine assignment to help a widow find out why her police officer husband was brooding before he died.
And when she starts poking her nose where others think it doesn't belong, she meets unexpected resistance and then the routine investigation turns into a double-murder probe with Kinsey on the list to be number three. Kinsey's character just keeps getting better. I loved this book.
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Summary: DON'T DIG UP THE PAST
Review: N IS FOR NOOSE By: Sue Grafton A true detective novel that deserves three stars. It takes you step by step on the thrilling case. Like all good stories it takes a while to get going, but in real life cases, everything is a hit and miss. The book is really describes and in depth in each and every chapter to give you a vivid picture of what is really happening. This is a great read for those true detectives out there. Kinsey Millhone is a down to earth investigator. Who just like everyone else has problems of her own such as bad taste in men and a hot temper to go along with it. Yet she has never given up on any case even when it seems hopeless. Kinsey takes a case that any private investigator or detective would turn down or eventually give up on. There is no evidence of any crime except for the fact that a troubled man died of a heart attack out on the highway and now his wife wants some answers. The only problem is that in this small town in California answers aren't easily shared. The people in Nota Lake are also very unforgiving and don't like outsiders. That is a big problem for Kinsey. Being a newcomer to town is one problem but when she starts to investigate a known and respected officer of the law, Tom Newquist the now deceased, anger and tension begin to rise. Now it is up to Kinsey to figure out what the five letters in the noose means and who has been threatening her before the noose ends up around her neck.
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