S Is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739323067 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 449 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stephen said S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mystery). S is for Silence was a real page turner and a far better read than R is for Richochet. The only thing I don't like is the jumping back and forth with the present and the flashbacks to fill in the story background. I feel it would have been better if it started with the background and continued from there. Violet Sullivan while not the ideal wife and mother is handsdown the. Bummed out by new third-person narrative Tom Howe S is for jumping the Shark. I'd enjoyed the previous titles in the series tremendously, but Grafton lost me when she introduced the awkward third-person narrative. It doesn't make sense for one thing—an author's trick of sorts—to fabricate a third-person story that is definitely not "respectfully submitted" by her delightful narrator, Kinsey. This is the kind o. Boring flashbacks, no motive for the minor character who did it. The flashbacks were so long and drawn out that eventually I stopped reading them. Grafton never explained the *motive* for the crime, only *who* did it. And, like other reviewers, I was annoyed that it was such a minor character who Kinsey only talked to once throughout the whole book. I thought for sure it was Chet
One million first printing; Literary Guild, BOMC and Mystery Guild main selection. From Publishers Weekly Kinsey Millhone has kept her appeal by being distinctive and sympathetic without craving center stage. Violet's daughter, Daisy, who was seven at the time, hires Millhone to discover her mother's true fate. While some mysteries that provide the PI's shoe size or most despised food create a forced and intrusive intimacy, a master like Grafton makes the relationship relaxed and reassuring. . This 19th entry (after 2004's R Is for Ricochet) adopts a new convention: Millhone's customary intelligent and occasionally self-deprecating first-person reportage is interrupted by vignettes from the days surrounding the Fourth of July, 34 years earlier, when a hot-blooded young woman named Violet Sullivan disappeared. However, the utterly illogical and oddly abrupt ending u
She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. S is for silence: the silence of the lost, the silence of the grave, the silence of oblivion.Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. Some said she was murdered by her husband. Some said she'd run off with a lover. In S IS FOR SILENCE, Kinsey Millhone's nineteenth excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, S is for surprises as Sue Grafton takes a who