As we near the Omega of Sue Grafton’s alphabet mystery series, the reader begins to wonder if there’s anything new under the sun in fictional Santa Teresa, California, private investigator Kinsey Millhone’s home territory, a place forever stuck in the late 1980s, a time nostalgically positioned before cell phones, GPS devices, and the internet (Kinsey still goes to her public library for vital sleuthing information, for goodness sake!). In V is for Vengeance, her beloved neighbor Henry is out of town and Kinsey herself is offstage for about half of the narrative. V focuses rather on a raft of characters linked to an organized crime family. The preamble to the story is a bit slow, and it never really connects until the end, and then in a way that isn’t too successful. V is for Vengeance is an off-day in the Kinsey Millhone franchise. We hope she gets her groove back if she’s going to make it to Z (A is for Alibi was published in 1982). With author Sue Grafton now past 70, one wonders.
As we near the Omega of Sue Grafton’s alphabet mystery series, the reader begins to wonder if there’s anything new under the sun in fictional Santa Teresa, California, private investigator Kinsey Millhone’s home territory, a place forever stuck in the late 1980s, a time nostalgically positioned before cell phones, GPS devices, and the internet (Kinsey still goes to her public library for vital sleuthing information, for goodness sake!). In V is for Vengeance, her beloved neighbor Henry is out of town and Kinsey herself is offstage for about half of the narrative. V focuses rather on a raft of characters linked to an organized crime family. The preamble to the story is a bit slow, and it never really connects until the end, and then in a way that isn’t too successful. V is for Vengeance is an off-day in the Kinsey Millhone franchise. We hope she gets her groove back if she’s going to make it to Z (A is for Alibi was published in 1982). With author Sue Grafton now past 70, one wonders.
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