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Summary: Up there with the best
Review: This is another excellent entry in the Alphabet series. Sue Grafton's writing is taut and keeps the reader turning the pages really quickly. This book simply breezed by. Kinsey is a great character, and wonderful company for the4 hours or so spent reading this book. She is amusing, resourceful, morally upright, and very likeable! The plot here is great, allowing for an interesting investigation into the disappearance of the good Dcotor. His two wives are well drawn characters, and inflect the plot with many an interesting moment! It was also good to see one of the characters from "J" crop up again. I always get a little thrill when i meet a character who i can connect to another story. This book has several strands to it, the main inveatigation, the shady brothers selling Kinsey her apartment, and the "misplaced" money. The only problem i have with this book is that only one of these strands is actually explained to the reader fully. The explanations to the other two are not exaplained to the reader at all, and you really have to figure it out for yourself. All the info you need is there, but it takes another careful read of the book to actually be able to know how it was done. However, i suppose, if you read it carefully in the first place, that wouldn't be such a problem. So, this is definitely a book which rewards concentrated and careful reading. All in all, the final solution (one worked out) is a very good one, and this an extremely good addition to the series. It has humour, great characters, a great plot, and Kinsey. what more could you ask for? Oh yes, another little quibble. There is incredibly little "Peril" involved.
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Summary: One of her best
Review: I'm a Sue Grafton fan, so I was looking forward to treating myself with the reading of this book. As I was recovering from the flu and the thick biography I had been reading was putting me to sleep, I felt entitled to indulge myself with the pleasure of Grafton's latest. I was not at all disappointed, and in fact thought it was one of her best. The tension of the story never got to be uncomfortable, as happens in a few of her books - yet it was, as usual, a page-turner. The only problem is that I finished it much too quickly!
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Summary: P is for pleasing
Review: I really enjoyed this latest Kinsey Millhone book. I worked in a nursing home for several years and saw all sorts of strange things like she has described. She has written perfectly about the atmosphere in such a place and the people who work there. I wish we had learned if Leila actually stole the money out of the bank account and more about her, but she wasn't the main character. I didn't particularly like either of Dr. P's wives. Henry, her landlord, is one of my favorites. I wish I had a neighbor like him!
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Summary: Sue Grafton Reigns
Review: She has done it again! Like a magnet, my hand automatically reached for that large letter "P" on the library shelf. Weeks after Sue Grafton's latest book "P" is for Peril reached the local library it finally made it to the shelf without a hold placed on it. I am not even a reader of mystery genre. It wouldn't even matter to me if there was a mystery involved! I just like to read about Kinsey Malone, her neighbors, friends, enemies, divorces, affairs...well you get the picture. Sue Grafton can spin a story out of the most fragmented bits of information. I admire her ability to create real people for me as I read. And I envy her ability to blend it all together...she must use index cards like she requires Kinsey to do for her private detective work. I will be patiently waiting for "Q", while still telling others about "A" through "P."
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Summary: Now I'm Learning my ABC's
Review: I am embarrassed to say, " 'P' is for Peril" is the first of the alphabet series I have read by Ms. Grafton. I enjoyed it so much, the day after I finished reading it, I went right out and picked up a copy of "K" is for Killer; and I must say, I enjoyed it equally as well. I hope that by early spring, I know as much about the Kinsey Millhone investigations as Sue Grafton.
Ms. Grafton has successfully blended all the ingredients together for a first rate novel. The story is fast paced and has a suspenseful plot. Ms. Grafton's character development is outstanding too. Kinsey Millhone does not do triple reverse sommersaults and karate six men twice her size to death. She does not work for free and she is not anal retentive about stretching the truth when it suits her purpose. She is a quick wit and a skilled investigator; an extremely believable character.
I'm not an easy sell either. I'm a retired lieutenant with the Chicago Police Department. I spent ten of those years in homicide, ten more in narcotics. I know what rings true in police investigations and I know what Private Investigators can and cannot do. Consequently, I was unable to watch "Columbo" and a host of other like shows; nor can I read novels that stink to the high heavens. Ms. Grafton's books are a breath of fresh air and a great find for me.
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Summary: Welcome back!
Review: Honestly, I've been unimpressed by the past four or five Kinsey Millhone books. Grafton has been slipping into lackluster formula, putting her heroine into less-than-gripping situations, the outcome of which I haven't given a hoot about. But with "P is for Peril," she's back in top form, with not one, but two intriguing plotlines. Reading this book, you know why this series is consistantly on every best-seller list. By the denouement (on the last page, no less!), I had re-discovered why I became a Millhone fan in the first place. Brava!
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Summary: A Long Way To Z
Review: Grafton is the best mystery author now working. P is for Peril easily equals her high standards. I really like Kinsey, and I feel this book is among the finest recent Kinsey novels. I admire Grafton for risking reader hostility for the chances she takes with this story. Overall, P is a solid series entry, and I'm glad we still have a long way to go to Z.
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Summary: Not quite as good as her earlier ones
Review: I love Sue Grafton's books, so I have to say I was a little disappointed in this one. The set-up took a long time, with very little of interest going on. Then, once the book became a page turner with lots of suspects and action it feels like Ms. Grafton got bored with the book and decided to just end it. While Kinsey may work out a lot of the aftermath in her head, I hated how abrubtly the book ended. It had no closure for many of the smaller details. The sub-plot started out really well, and again ended too quickly. I loved reading about Kinsey again, as she's such a fabulous character and I would still recommend reading the book, but most of the earlier books are better. I hope Q is better. (Quarrel? Question? Quick? Quaker? Quartz? Quarantine?...)
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Summary: needs some help
Review: I have been reading sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone series since I was twelve (I'm 25) and have never been dissapointed in one of the books until now. Unlike other reviewers I don't want a refund. I found the story to be engaging (I couldn't put the book down) for the most part, until it started coming to the end. I couldn't figure out why Kinsey had ended up in places, or what the purpose of some visits were. There also seemed to be some detachment from the subject; as you know Kinsey often has a rapid internal monologue that ties things together by leaps and bounds. In this book Kinsey seemed bored herself with the investigation, it seemed she was frustrated and giving a half-hearted attempt at solving the crime. Although I am dissapointed with this book, I am giving it three stars because every author has an off year. I can only hope that the next in the series will be as good as the previous ones. So, I am going to read the book over again (it has been several months since I had first read it) and perhaps the second time around I will pick up clues that I missed.
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Summary: P is for Perfect, except for the last chapter
Review: This was a 5 star book, up until the last chapter. Oh how I was looking forward to the explanation behind all those sub-plots involving Dr Purcell's wives, family members and co-workers. Oh how dissappointed I was when Kinsey failed to find the bullet the first place she suspected. Oh how dissappointed I was when I was offered a weak explanation behind the killer's motive at the end. This book desparately needed an epilogue. The best part of the book was the second story line with Kinsey's new landlords, obviously patterned off the Menendez brothers. I knew everybody wasn't who they seemed to be, and I was pleased with the outcome of that part of the book. However, the main story left a huge hole in my imagination. Too many loose ends were hanging with not even an attempt of an explanation. For example, why all the hubbub from Fiona about Kinsey getting permission to talk to her daughter? Were all of Dow's business partners guilty of medicare fraud, or just one of them? How and why did Leila steal the money? These stories were building to what I thought was going to be a spectacular conclusion. I sense some frustration from Ms Grafton in the story, sense she didn't attempt the standard Millhone epilogue. I guess she cornered herself into such a tight box, there was no credible epilogue to attach the the mess.
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