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S Is For Silence: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
by Sue Grafton
It is 1987 in ‘S is for Silence’, #19 in this mystery series, and PI Kinsey Millhone arrives in Serena Station prepared to uncover old secrets and to disturb honest citizens. Her new client, Daisy Sullivan, has decided the disappearance of her mother, the neighborhood sexpot, in 1953, has become an unbearable taint on her life that she has been unable to move past. Daisy has the lingering suspicion that her father, Foley, an alcoholic, had something to do with her mother’s disappearance.
Violet Sullivan had her way with every important businessman in the little town. She had a husband who beat her up and a little girl, but none of that slowed her down. During the days leading up to when she vanished, she had connived, tricked and argued until she had a brand new car, a Bel Air Coupe. One of the whoppers everyone remembers her telling that week too was how she had $50,000, but since Foley had been paying off the car for years after Violet was gone, stamped lie to that claim. Or is that why she left?
If she left.
It was the fourth of July, and most everyone had gone to watch fireworks. Well, not everyone. By the time everyone was back home later that night, Violet and her new car had vanished!
I was a little bit unsatisfied by this Kinsey Millhone mystery, but never mind. It is a perfectly respectable mystery and a good, if a tad bit pro forma, beach read. The characters were a touch too flat, and I definitely missed Kinsey's usual friends and neighbors. However, the distinct whiff of the repressed environment of the 1950's, shown in flashbacks alternating with Kinsey's present time of 1987, put me off a bit on reading this novel. I hated the 1950's decade.
Violet Sullivan had her way with every important businessman in the little town. She had a husband who beat her up and a little girl, but none of that slowed her down. During the days leading up to when she vanished, she had connived, tricked and argued until she had a brand new car, a Bel Air Coupe. One of the whoppers everyone remembers her telling that week too was how she had $50,000, but since Foley had been paying off the car for years after Violet was gone, stamped lie to that claim. Or is that why she left?
If she left.
It was the fourth of July, and most everyone had gone to watch fireworks. Well, not everyone. By the time everyone was back home later that night, Violet and her new car had vanished!
I was a little bit unsatisfied by this Kinsey Millhone mystery, but never mind. It is a perfectly respectable mystery and a good, if a tad bit pro forma, beach read. The characters were a touch too flat, and I definitely missed Kinsey's usual friends and neighbors. However, the distinct whiff of the repressed environment of the 1950's, shown in flashbacks alternating with Kinsey's present time of 1987, put me off a bit on reading this novel. I hated the 1950's decade.