7/6/2023 0 Comments X by Sue Grafton![]() Wolinsky’s box reveals a coded sheet of paper, which Kinsey’s likeable landlord, Henry, 89, is determined to solve. And at the very beginning amid frantic divorce proceedings between Ari and Theodora Xanakis, Theodora (Teddy) thinks one of their paintings is a Turner and plans to steal it. ![]() Kinsey has a box belonging to the murdered detective Pete Wolinsky, and his wife’s looking for financial reports for the IRS. An elegantly wealthy Hallie Bettancourt hires Kinsey to find her son, Christian Satterfield, a former bank robber, whom she set up for adoption years ago and has just gotten out of prison. It’s March 1989, in Santa Teresa, California. ![]() ![]() Sue Grafton’s style in her 24th alphabetical mystery is akin to Kinsey Millhone’s detective work: they both depend on “the methodical accretion of detail” and the “visual survey” of houses, clothes, facial expressions, towns.Įverything is taken step by step, which could be “boring beyond belief” but is fueled by Millhone’s personality (38, twice-divorced, sharp-eyed, scratching info onto index cards) and the intricate web of Grafton’s crafty plotting. ![]()
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