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G is for Gumshoe
by Sue Grafton
G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton is a 1997, (originally published in 1990), Ballantine Books publication.
In January of this year, (2016), I vowed to get caught all the way up on this series by the end of the year. Naturally, I got side tracked, but I’m still determined to achieve my goal. So, here are my thoughts on the seventh installment of this popular and long-running series.
Kinsey is hired by a frail, sickly women to check on her mother because she has not heard from her in a while. Sounds like a simple enough task, and it is, at first. The old woman is found, placed in a facility, but up and disappears yet again, only this time she’s not so lucky.
In the meantime, Kinsey is informed she could be the target of an assassin she helped put away, requiring her to have a bodyguard, one she becomes quite close to before all is said and done.
This chapter in the series seemed super short for some reason. I read it in under an hour, but not because it was impossible to put down. There was a lot of action, some romance, but the case is a little murky and I had to read the last few chapters twice in order to make sure I had understood it right.
The assassin on Kinsey’s trail proved to be the more exciting part of the book and the irony of it made this story as hardboiled as any 1940’s detective story. This side story is the reason it upped my star rating, otherwise this one would have fallen rather flat.
Overall this one gets a 3.5 rounded to 4
Onward to H is Homicide
In January of this year, (2016), I vowed to get caught all the way up on this series by the end of the year. Naturally, I got side tracked, but I’m still determined to achieve my goal. So, here are my thoughts on the seventh installment of this popular and long-running series.
Kinsey is hired by a frail, sickly women to check on her mother because she has not heard from her in a while. Sounds like a simple enough task, and it is, at first. The old woman is found, placed in a facility, but up and disappears yet again, only this time she’s not so lucky.
In the meantime, Kinsey is informed she could be the target of an assassin she helped put away, requiring her to have a bodyguard, one she becomes quite close to before all is said and done.
This chapter in the series seemed super short for some reason. I read it in under an hour, but not because it was impossible to put down. There was a lot of action, some romance, but the case is a little murky and I had to read the last few chapters twice in order to make sure I had understood it right.
The assassin on Kinsey’s trail proved to be the more exciting part of the book and the irony of it made this story as hardboiled as any 1940’s detective story. This side story is the reason it upped my star rating, otherwise this one would have fallen rather flat.
Overall this one gets a 3.5 rounded to 4
Onward to H is Homicide