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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
I forget how much I enjoy these books and then I read another and remember why I like them. I enjoy the setting. They are not set in present day, yet they are set in recent times. It's like just going back a few years and enjoying the time all over again. They're modern but not today. Takes me back to my 'good ole days'.
This book takes Kinsey to a small town to find a woman who disappeared about 30 or so years ago. Her daughter hires Kinsey to find her or find out what happened to her. The books moves between the present and Kinsey's investigation and the past in the days leading up to the disappearance. We're provided with a cast of several suspects. I was waffling between a couple of those right up until the end. I should have figured it out quicker.
I'll be getting on to the next in the series, "T" working up to "V".
This book takes Kinsey to a small town to find a woman who disappeared about 30 or so years ago. Her daughter hires Kinsey to find her or find out what happened to her. The books moves between the present and Kinsey's investigation and the past in the days leading up to the disappearance. We're provided with a cast of several suspects. I was waffling between a couple of those right up until the end. I should have figured it out quicker.
I'll be getting on to the next in the series, "T" working up to "V".
I have only read A, B and this book in the series but will read more.
I was extremely disappointed in the end of this book. In fact, it was so very out of keeping with the rest of Grafton's work that the next time I'm in a brick-and-mortar store, I intend to pick up a print copy and check to see if the ebook I read didn't leave out something important. There was no explanation as to how the murder was accomplished, or why. The reader was given no satisfaction at all. I started reading "T" is for Trespass, but if this book is typical of what Grafton is turning in now, it will be the last time I read anything of hers.
Another good one! Well worth sticking out the early part of the series for. Kinsey has to solve a 30 year old mystery that features many interesting characters and some action.
First rate mystery with great characters and a complex but fast moving plot. The combination of current (well, late 1980s as "present") and flashback into 1953 worked really well.
Sue Grafton is my "go to" when I just need something that I know will be adequately written and will maintain my attention without needing to concentrate too much.
This shifts both point of view from first (Kinsey's) to third (everyone else's) using flashbacks to show the past. It helps to reveal the truth as Kinsey searches for it.
I wished to know more about Kinsey's usual circle of friends and connections instead of the book focusing solely on the case, but it's still well written and interesting. I just would have cared more if people I already knew and liked were involved in the story.
This shifts both point of view from first (Kinsey's) to third (everyone else's) using flashbacks to show the past. It helps to reveal the truth as Kinsey searches for it.
I wished to know more about Kinsey's usual circle of friends and connections instead of the book focusing solely on the case, but it's still well written and interesting. I just would have cared more if people I already knew and liked were involved in the story.
I have to say that this one was a bit weird. It takes place in the past, present, and then we jump forward a few months and we find out things in the next book about what occurred to Kinsey. We get hints about things, but nothing firm which I thought was an odd choice. I have so many Grafton books on my shelve, and I was so happy to buy this one back in 2005. It's still in good shape, and it was fun to take out this weekend and finish it off. One thing you can always say about Sue Grafton's books, they tend to fly by.
"S is for Silence" follows Kinsey as she is asked to look into the case of Violet Sullivan. Violet went missing back in 1953, and now in 1987, Daisy (Violet's daughter) hopes that Kinsey could track down what happened to her mother. When Kinsey reluctantly agrees to take on the case, she starts to find out more about Violet and those around her that loved and hated her.
Kinsey for once seems like a bit player in this story. And that's because Grafton changes up how she writes this one.
This was one of the first books that Grafton did past/present scenes with which also had other characters taking over the story from Kinsey. I didn't think it worked out entirely, but it was a good first effort, and when Grafton changes up the narration in the future to follow this model, it works out much more smoothly in my opinion.
We follow other characters like Liza (Violet's babysitter) and Liza's best friend Kathy. And some of the men who were involved with or hoped to be involved with Violet. One thing Grafton did well was showing the snakes under rocks in small towns.
The ending I thought was really great and I have to say that I get why Kinsey ended up being annoyed with Daisy. But there seems to be a semblance of some "hope" or something springing from this case.
"S is for Silence" follows Kinsey as she is asked to look into the case of Violet Sullivan. Violet went missing back in 1953, and now in 1987, Daisy (Violet's daughter) hopes that Kinsey could track down what happened to her mother. When Kinsey reluctantly agrees to take on the case, she starts to find out more about Violet and those around her that loved and hated her.
Kinsey for once seems like a bit player in this story. And that's because Grafton changes up how she writes this one.
This was one of the first books that Grafton did past/present scenes with which also had other characters taking over the story from Kinsey. I didn't think it worked out entirely, but it was a good first effort, and when Grafton changes up the narration in the future to follow this model, it works out much more smoothly in my opinion.
We follow other characters like Liza (Violet's babysitter) and Liza's best friend Kathy. And some of the men who were involved with or hoped to be involved with Violet. One thing Grafton did well was showing the snakes under rocks in small towns.
The ending I thought was really great and I have to say that I get why Kinsey ended up being annoyed with Daisy. But there seems to be a semblance of some "hope" or something springing from this case.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I enjoyed this story a lot more than the last one. A young woman decided to hire Kinsey to find her mother or figure out what happened to her. Her mother was a wild woman who left home one day and never came back. No one ever saw her or her fancy new car again. Violet was a woman who was a known tramp and her husband was abusive so many thought he had killed her or finally left him. Daisy, her daughter, felt abandoned and after 35 years decided she needed to know what really happened. Kinsey was reluctant to take the case after 35 years but ended up agreeing to look into it at the insistence of a friend. As she interviewed people she mostly heard the same thing until someone told her something her saw and never reported. She realized she was on to something when she found her car with all the tires slashed.