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Summary: Loved L Is For Lawless From Hardcore Grafton Fan
Review: It is late and other reviewers have given superior synopses of the plot. All there is left to say is: Read This Book. You will not regret following Kinsey Millhone on the ultimate wild goose chase for her dear friend and landlord, Henry. For a tough girl detective, Kinsey sure has a big heart of gold. She ends up with another set of marginal characters (probably inspired by the first set of yahoos in H Is For Homicide) and is forced to endure their company and cause for days and untold miles with superhuman tolerance and sympathy.Sue Grafton keeps surprising us her with the depth of her talent as a writer with every letter of the alphabet. This is coming from an inveterate reader of the finest in British Murder Mysteries. So please, try to trust a complete stranger, and race right off for this installment of great American Mystery Writing by a master of the trade.
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Summary: L is for Love the Alphabet Series
Review: Kinsey gets into an unpaid, cross country adventure with a disfunctional family of hoodlums. It gets hilarious as she keeps trying to return to good old normal Santa Teresa, only to be squelched by the next unexpected event down the road. The action in this one is as good as Sue Grafton gets. The pages flew through my hands. I was slightly dissappointed with the ending, but 98% of the book was a solid 5 Stars, so it keeps my top score. I've been reading the alphabet series in order, and although G-K were a little subpar, Sue Grafton proves here she's still got it.
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Summary: Working vacation
Review: Kinsey is going to be in the wedding of her elderly landlord, Henry Pitts, so she decides to take a few days off from her job as a private investigator to help with wedding plans. Instead, Henry asks her to look into the case of one of his old friends, recently deceased, whose son tries to get help from the military to bury him. The family is told that there is no record of the man serving in the military, so they want Kinsey to find out the truth. She figures that this will be a simple matter, but of course, it's not. Her investigation leads her across the country following a woman with a mysterious duffle bag, which she feels may contain important evidence. Nothing is as it seems and Kinsey is soon embroiled with a couple of ex-cons, a young girl, and an eighty-five-year-old woman who is studying self-defense. This is a wild Kinsey Milhonne escapade with the usual interesting cast of characters.
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Summary: Working vacation
Review: Kinsey is going to be in the wedding of her elderly landlord, Henry Pitts, so she decides to take a few days off from her job as a private investigator to help with wedding plans. Instead, Henry asks her to look into the case of one of his old friends, recently deceased, whose son tries to get help from the military to bury him. The family is told that there is no record of the man serving in the military, so they want Kinsey to find out the truth. She figures that this will be a simple matter, but of course, it's not. Her investigation leads her across the country following a woman with a mysterious duffle bag, which she feels may contain important evidence. Nothing is as it seems and Kinsey is soon embroiled with a couple of ex-cons, a young girl, and an eighty-five-year-old woman who is studying self-defense. This is a wild Kinsey Milhonne escapade with the usual interesting cast of characters.
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Summary: "L" is for Lucky Kinsey!!!!
Review: Kinsey is lucky to come out alive in this one. I have read them all through "L". I thought this was one of the best ones. However, others seem to disagree. So be it. Kinsey is her usual bright, nosey self, asking questions and sticking her nose in other peoples business. I thought her impersonation of the hotel maid was great. I was nervous the whole time, afraid she would get caught, did she???? The other characters were good, to me. The granny with the shotgun was a good character. I could see in my mind the people as they traveled and as they tried to find the money. I would recommend reading "L".
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Summary: Highly entertaining
Review: Not your typical murder mystery, but when does Grafton ever write one of those? LAWLESS is not the best in the series, and the plot is a bit uneven, but it's a fun ride, and I'm happy to have been along for it.
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Summary: "L" is for Look for another
Review: Of the Sue Grafton's series, this one didn't have the same impact as her earlier books. I was disappointed! The plot developed slowly, and at times reminded me of a bad 'made for T.V. movie'and the characters (other than the familiar aquaintances) lacked "character". After I began reading "L", over a year ago, I put the book down and didn't have the desire to read it until recently. I enjoyed her first books and hope that "M" is a better read.
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Summary: A bit boring
Review: Oh I don't know. The "L" just didn't do it for me. When the characters are talking she often fails to add any environment to it. I grew bored thinking the characters were smily in a room, talking. Gone is the sarcasm and comic undertones that the PI has had in the past. Also, this Ray guy, well he says he has no money,and yet he hopped a two points in the story he does have some.
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Summary: A bit boring
Review: Oh I don't know. The "L" just didn't do it for me. When the characters are talking she often fails to add any environment to it. I grew bored thinking the characters were smily in a room, talking. Gone is the sarcasm and comic undertones that the PI has had in the past. Also, this Ray guy, well he says he has no money,and yet he hopped a two points in the story he does have some.
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Summary: "L" is for Lacking
Review: Other reviewers have compared this one to "H." They're right. This is an "on the road with the bad guys" adventure. No real mystery here, and other than a few interesting scenes, not much worthy of note. The supporting cast that has been weaved through the other novels is noticably absent from this book. Maybe they were working on other projects. The book suffers from this, mainly because the replacement players are not nearly as compelling or, frankly, fun. By the time Kinsey ends up in Kentucky, you will find yourself saying "Who cares? Get back to Santa Teresa." All in all, it was a disappointing read, annoying so because my prior experience with these books means that you cannot skip the bad ones.
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