J is for Judgment
'On the face of it, you wouldn't think there was any connection between the murder of a dead man and the events that changed my perceptions about my life...' For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity - the company that had...
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'On the face of it, you wouldn't think there was any connection between the murder of a dead man and the events that changed my perceptions about my life...'
For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity - the company that had fired her nine months previously.
Five hours later she was on a plane to Mexico, hot on the trail of a suicide who'd allegedly just come back to life. After a five-year wait, Wendell Jaffe's widow had finally succeeded in having the real estate swindler declared dead, collecting half a million dollars for her pains. Now it looks more like a 'pseudocide' - and Kinsey's ready to risk everything to get to the truth...
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Format: paperback
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Pan
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
American,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Womens,
Suspense,
Murder Mystery
Series: Kinsey Millhone (#10)
Wow. This was a really good one to sink your teeth into. We have Kinsey showing why she is really a good investigator and her also having to deal with changes to her professional life. I thought the writing was great as well as the flow of the book. The ending comes with a very nice gut punch too. W...
Originally seen on my book blog!I knew from the beginning that this had a great story line and was hopeful that it would be a promising book. It was. From the beginning we are thinking a lot of things, for one, why did he fake his suicide? For two, what is now going to happen to his widows insurance...
Much more background to Kinsey which was good. The mystery was more understated and led to less life or death decisions at the end which was refreshing.
I always enjoy Kinsey Millhone stories, some better than others. This one was middle of the pack for me. There isn't much mystery involved since Kinsey is to find out if someone is alive or not and we know that answer to that in the first few pages. The rest of the story is the consequences of knowi...
In "J" is for Judgment, Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone is hired to find a man who supposedly committed suicide several years earlier. She locates the scoundrel in Mexico in the company of a woman whose husband had died several years previously, and her subject is using the dead man's name. Millhone ...
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