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Summary: Sour taste in the salad dressing
Review: If you'd like to know the pungency of the oregano in the vinaigrette Kinsey Millhone pours on her salad in the restaurant, or that her seating companion on the airline flight turns down her mouth too much and wears purple with brown, or how cats rub against her toes when she wears sandals, this is the novel for you. Or, if you want a textbook of what a successful author does when she gets lazy and needs to meet a deadline, this is the novel for you. If you want a cohesive and exciting story, however, look elsewhere.
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Summary: Where is Wendall Jaffe? Did He Fake His Own Death?
Review: Kinsey Millhone has to solve the case of what happened to Wendall Jaffe. Did he fake his own death in order to defraud the
insurance company? Kinsey spends most of the book trying to put the clues together and runs into trouble along her way.I enjoyed the book and found it a good read, though not as good as some of the others in this series.
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Summary: Another enjoyable romp
Review: So 'J' isn't quite compelling enough to earn that 5-star rating, but it's still great and another key novel in regards to revealing some things about Kinsey's past. I liked Grafton's use of having Kinsey infiltrate almost every character involved in the plot; even the "villains" such as they are. And despite it being the longest Kinsey mystery thus far, you'd never feel it. Definitely a no-miss.
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Summary: J is for Juicy
Review: Solid Read! J is for Judgment does not disappoint fans of this series. There are lots of juicy relationships to explore in this novel (Wendell & Dana, Wendell & Renata, Michael & Juliet etc.) The ending of the novel ties up most of the loose ends but I would have liked the story to follow-up more with the Jaffe Family and Detective Harris Brown. Were there any reprecussions for the retired police officer's involvement in the money scandal? I guess the novel has to end somewhere! Overall it's worth the read if you enjoy this series of novels. I also found the section on Kinsey's family history an interesting addition to the novel.
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Summary: A good mystery, and well-written
Review: Sue Grafton is amazing in this book. With her writing she is able to take a woman and show how strong, independant, strong-willed, and driven she is in her activities. It all begins with the thought of a man trying to claim bankruptcy for his old company, yet someone sees him in Mexico five years prior to the bankruptcy claim. Her job is to investigate and see if it is really him, how he is able to hide from the insurance and police, as well as what his intentions are.
As Mrs. Grafton takes us through the trials and tribulations of Kinsey Millhone (the private investigator) and her search for Wendell Jaffe we are drawn further into the story. Sue Grafton's work is very strong in her ways of describing characters or scenes to the point that it gives the characters or scene their personality and appeals.
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Summary: "J" IS FOR JUDGMENT
Review: Sue Grafton is amazing in this book. With her writing she is able to take a woman and show how strong, independant, strong-willed, and driven she is in her activities. It all begins with the thought of a man trying to claim bankruptcy for his old company, yet someone sees him in Mexico five years prior to the bankruptcy claim. Her job is to investigate and see if it is really him, how he is able to hide from the insurance and police, as well as what his intentions are.
As Mrs. Grafton takes us through the trials and tribulations of Kinsey Millhone (the private investigator) and her search for Wendell Jaffe we are drawn further into the story. Sue Grafton's work is very strong in her ways of describing characters or scenes to the point that it gives the characters or scene their personality and appeals.
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Summary: A good read
Review: The book was slower than I, but still a good read
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Summary: curious only when paid?
Review: The plot of this book was interesting enough, but I was left wondering why Kinsey Milhone was so incurious about her own family. If part of her name is all over the place, why didn't she have any information at all about them? And then to have one of her cousins turn into a dea ex machina? How convenient.
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Summary: Lame detective
Review: The premise of the story caught my attention -- a man presumed dead for years, whose wife had already collected a large insurance policy on him, appears to be alive after all. The problem is that Sue Grafton's fictional detective Kinsey Millhone is too incompetent to solve the case. How does she resolve her dilemma? By asking two other perpetrators if they were involved just to satisfy Ms. Milhone's curiosity. Lame! And then there is this subplot into Ms. Millhone's personal life that leads to nowhere. I don't know what "K" or the rest of the alphabet has in store for readers, but I'm not interested in finding out.
Rating:
Summary: Lame detective
Review: The premise of the story caught my attention -- a man presumed dead for years, whose wife had already collected a large insurance policy on him, appears to be alive after all. The problem is that Sue Grafton's fictional detective Kinsey Millhone is too incompetent to solve the case. How does she resolve her dilemma? By asking two other perpetrators if they were involved just to satisfy Ms. Milhone's curiosity. Lame! And then there is this subplot into Ms. Millhone's personal life that leads to nowhere. I don't know what "K" or the rest of the alphabet has in store for readers, but I'm not interested in finding out.
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