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Q is for Quarry
by Sue Grafton
I haven't read a detective story, I think. Surely the authors have different writing styles and I'm now interested to know them. This is also the first Sue Grafton novel I've read which is funny I should've started at A. I think I found this on a sale pile in National Book Store. Or maybe the Booksale? Or Chapters and Pages, I think that's what it's called.
In the story, this Jane Doe case happened ages ago and to even try get another go at it sounds tedious. I wonder if such can be successful in real life but the book expressed that aimless yet hopeful path resolution. I appreciate that and actually liked that. Kinsey, Dolan, and Stacey were a colorful team and those two officers were standard cases of old men whose lifestyles caught up with them. Stacey's a particularly interesting one because the writing and dialogue made me feel like he's as young as Kinsey, playful in a bachelor sort of way. I'd like to get more from him throughout this book. Kinsey, how many books in, had a discipline and patience I could use about now. She's properly respectful and her questionings/interrogations feels true to a professional investigator and had no drama of a fictional story.
This was set in that part of California near the Arizona border which is new to me. Some New Mexico areas that I've just read in my work. The sprawling vastness of the United States' desert I usually see in Western films felt more depressing in a crime story. The plot involved a lot of patience what with leads coming up dry or followed up the next day, which I found fascinating because of the assumptions I've had with detective stories. I thought it would be fast-paced as the story reached half-way. It flowed carefully. It was descriptive of every character's action probably to iilustrate how Kinsey was an observer. It reminded me of Vince Flynn's spy books and I wondered if this is a must in detective stories. I really need to read more and I like what I've experienced so far.
The victim of this book was inspired from a real Jane Doe case of a girl dumped in a quarry in Lompoc back in 1969. It's facsinating how Grafton crafted a story from her maxilla and mandible and sort of gave her a resolution. I hope it was this easy to give her justice.
In the story, this Jane Doe case happened ages ago and to even try get another go at it sounds tedious. I wonder if such can be successful in real life but the book expressed that aimless yet hopeful path resolution. I appreciate that and actually liked that. Kinsey, Dolan, and Stacey were a colorful team and those two officers were standard cases of old men whose lifestyles caught up with them. Stacey's a particularly interesting one because the writing and dialogue made me feel like he's as young as Kinsey, playful in a bachelor sort of way. I'd like to get more from him throughout this book. Kinsey, how many books in, had a discipline and patience I could use about now. She's properly respectful and her questionings/interrogations feels true to a professional investigator and had no drama of a fictional story.
This was set in that part of California near the Arizona border which is new to me. Some New Mexico areas that I've just read in my work. The sprawling vastness of the United States' desert I usually see in Western films felt more depressing in a crime story. The plot involved a lot of patience what with leads coming up dry or followed up the next day, which I found fascinating because of the assumptions I've had with detective stories. I thought it would be fast-paced as the story reached half-way. It flowed carefully. It was descriptive of every character's action probably to iilustrate how Kinsey was an observer. It reminded me of Vince Flynn's spy books and I wondered if this is a must in detective stories. I really need to read more and I like what I've experienced so far.
The victim of this book was inspired from a real Jane Doe case of a girl dumped in a quarry in Lompoc back in 1969. It's facsinating how Grafton crafted a story from her maxilla and mandible and sort of gave her a resolution. I hope it was this easy to give her justice.