I've been reading these from A is for Alibi, and I've never found a rival for the bantering voice Kinsay has in the book. But I do think that Nina Milton's In the Moors (midnight ink) is now a bit of a rival...or not, as this series is almost done and Milton's is just beginning!
Exactly the book I wanted to read without being able to describe the type of book I wanted to read. So, there's cozy mysteries, which I would define as being the lightest type of murder mystery, and there's hard-boiled detective novels like Dashiel Hammet's which would be the toughest type of crime...
Kinsey Millhone is in many ways a typical P.I. Tough, strong, laconic. Falls seldom, but usually for the wrong person. A former cop, she lives in a tiny apartment with few possessions and quirky neighbors. Aside from the fact of her gender, not a whole lot to set her apart from the genre standar...
Set in Southern California, this fits well into the hard-boiled genre a la Chandler but with a gender switch--in this one our hard-drinking first person narrator and private detective Kinsey Malhone is a woman, and it's the men who are dangerous and of easy virtue. Tough, yes she's no one's fool and...
A PI with commitment issues.8 years ago Nikki Fife was put away for the murder of her husband. A divorce lawyer who died after someone dosed his allergy meds. A known ladies man it seemed at the time pretty obvious that this wife must have done it. But once released from jail Nikki wants to know ...
Having heard people talk about the series I decided to start at book one. An interesting mystery all about a murder being investigated again when the person convicted of the offence gets out of jail. I would be curious about the rest of the series but wouldn't be running to try to find them. You do...
I've been reading Sue Grafton for years and decided to go back to the beginning for a reread. I must say I'm enjoying it just as much on the reread as I did the first time around. Kinsey Millhone is in the tradition of a the hard-boiled private eye. She has the police background and the tough-chi...
This series is off to a rocky start for me. I found the story pretty interesting, but it was obvious at some points that this was the author's first effort. Some of the writing was bad, but other parts were really good. The main character is frustrating - she seems to be smart at times, but can a...
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