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A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton's daring new Kinsey Millhone novel.
A woman with a murky past who kills herself-or was it murder? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system. A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring working for the Mob, racking up millions from stolen goods. A wandering husband, rich and ruthless. A dirty cop so entrenched on the force he is immune to exposure. A sinister gangster, conscienceless and brutal. A lonely widower mourning the death of his lover, desperate for answers, which may be worse than the pain of his loss. A private detective, Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth-birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her with two black eyes and a busted nose.
And an elegant and powerful businessman whose dealings are definitely outside the law: the magus at the center of the web.
V: Victim. Violence. Vengeance.
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Sue Grafton, geboren 1940 in Kentucky, schrieb Drehbücher, bevor sie ihren ersten Roman veröffentlichte. Inzwischen sind ihre Bücher um die witzige und einzelgängerische Privatdetektivin Kinsey Millhone eine der erfolgreichsten amerikanischen Krimireihen überhaupt. Sue Grafton ist Präsidentin des Verbandes der Mystery Writers of America und lebt in Santa Barbara, Kalifornien.
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"For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life." -- 2 Corinthians 1:8 (NKJV)
The book begins with an intriguing back story of a young Princeton graduate who considers himself to be a great poker player. Next, in the book's present Kinsey finds herself clothes shopping (a most uncommon event in this series!) and observes a shoplifter. Her instincts kick in and she alerts a clerk she knows who calls security. From this simple act, the book's conflicts and revelations are launched. After you finish the book, I'm sure you'll be looking around you during future shopping trips in much different ways than you do now. It's a plot-dependent book so I won't say more about what happens. Let me shift instead to an overview of what the book addresses.
Have you ever made a mistake that threatened you with permanently upsetting everything you cared about in life . . . including staying alive? That's the powerful undercurrent theme of V is for Vengeance. Masterful mystery novelist Sue Grafton beautifully paints portraits of characters in just such circumstances . . . drawn into a whirlpool of evil that it's hard to find any light in it. In some cases, the portraits are revealed through narration, in other cases through dialogue, in some instances by what others say about them, and also by examining the remains of their lives after they are gone.
While hearing about such a book might seem to promise only depressed emotions for readers, Ms. Grafton brilliantly rises to display the human instinct to fight back, to look for a solution where there appears to be none, and to do the right thing. As a result, the book is ultimately life affirming in providing an implied promise of potential redemption for those who look beyond the worst potential consequences of their circumstances. I was very impressed.
Naturally, if you don't like dark stories, you probably won't like this book as much as I did . . . but I'm sure you'll admire the craftsmanship.
I was particularly impressed by the ways that little clues were left in the empty spaces of the pages as to the true nature of the characters. As a result, there was plenty of detecting to do before Kinsey Millhone made her first investigative move. To me, it made the complex character development a lot more interesting than it otherwise would have been.
To be sure the picture was dark enough, Ms. Grafton even sent Henry out of town. Characters whose quirks might otherwise have brought a smile to a reader's face were put into situations that made the quirks feel threatening to life and limb.
As a fan of character development, I don't recall a mystery novel that employed nearly as many different storytelling methods to paint the various portraits. I'm sure mystery novelist wannabes will be studying this book for years to come.
Ultimately, the book may lead you to ask some very interesting questions:
What should a life's purpose be?
What's the right thing to do when danger appears?
How can someone redeem a loss that seems irredeemable?
What is true hope?
Be sure to chew on all that food for thought.
Brava, Ms. Grafton!
You can be sure that the arrival of W is for W..... will be most welcome to your adoring fans.
The book begins with an intriguing back story of a young Princeton graduate who considers himself to be a great poker player. Next, in the book's present Kinsey finds herself clothes shopping (a most uncommon event in this series!) and observes a shoplifter. Her instincts kick in and she alerts a clerk she knows who calls security. From this simple act, the book's conflicts and revelations are launched. After you finish the book, I'm sure you'll be looking around you during future shopping trips in much different ways than you do now. It's a plot-dependent book so I won't say more about what happens. Let me shift instead to an overview of what the book addresses.
Have you ever made a mistake that threatened you with permanently upsetting everything you cared about in life . . . including staying alive? That's the powerful undercurrent theme of V is for Vengeance. Masterful mystery novelist Sue Grafton beautifully paints portraits of characters in just such circumstances . . . drawn into a whirlpool of evil that it's hard to find any light in it. In some cases, the portraits are revealed through narration, in other cases through dialogue, in some instances by what others say about them, and also by examining the remains of their lives after they are gone.
While hearing about such a book might seem to promise only depressed emotions for readers, Ms. Grafton brilliantly rises to display the human instinct to fight back, to look for a solution where there appears to be none, and to do the right thing. As a result, the book is ultimately life affirming in providing an implied promise of potential redemption for those who look beyond the worst potential consequences of their circumstances. I was very impressed.
Naturally, if you don't like dark stories, you probably won't like this book as much as I did . . . but I'm sure you'll admire the craftsmanship.
I was particularly impressed by the ways that little clues were left in the empty spaces of the pages as to the true nature of the characters. As a result, there was plenty of detecting to do before Kinsey Millhone made her first investigative move. To me, it made the complex character development a lot more interesting than it otherwise would have been.
To be sure the picture was dark enough, Ms. Grafton even sent Henry out of town. Characters whose quirks might otherwise have brought a smile to a reader's face were put into situations that made the quirks feel threatening to life and limb.
As a fan of character development, I don't recall a mystery novel that employed nearly as many different storytelling methods to paint the various portraits. I'm sure mystery novelist wannabes will be studying this book for years to come.
Ultimately, the book may lead you to ask some very interesting questions:
What should a life's purpose be?
What's the right thing to do when danger appears?
How can someone redeem a loss that seems irredeemable?
What is true hope?
Be sure to chew on all that food for thought.
Brava, Ms. Grafton!
You can be sure that the arrival of W is for W..... will be most welcome to your adoring fans.
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This is a compelling story here that is beautifully written and full of vivid descriptions.The writing is impeccable. The plot development is in line with the genre and dialogue is cleverly constructed.It brings to mind The Grandmothers written by Janvier Chando. The start is intriguing and the suspense goes all the way to the end, making it the page-turner that it is.
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"V is for Vengeance" is a solid, well-constructed crime novel. It presents different points of view, most of the bad guys have redeeming qualities, and the different strands of the plot run smoothly into each other. No great surprises for the reader but no great disappointments either. While I like "V is for Vengeance" better than "U is for Undertow", I'm not sure I would have read the other books of the series if this had been my first one. For that, it's too unoriginal.
In this latest one, Kinsey is sparring with organized crime and police corruption. Henry is out of town, and while she does make appearances at Rosie's bar and goes to a funeral with William (who is now a self-diagnosed pre-diabetic), the usual personal tidbits feel like they have been inserted in the story because otherwise, we would not have recognized it's Kinsey on the case. She does refer to aunt Gin, the Sibs, Mickey Macgruder, and eats a PB-&-pickle sandwich, so it's all there but ... not. "U" was almost clinical, and "V" still does not manage to make Kinsey's involvement with the case more interesting than the case itself.
In this latest one, Kinsey is sparring with organized crime and police corruption. Henry is out of town, and while she does make appearances at Rosie's bar and goes to a funeral with William (who is now a self-diagnosed pre-diabetic), the usual personal tidbits feel like they have been inserted in the story because otherwise, we would not have recognized it's Kinsey on the case. She does refer to aunt Gin, the Sibs, Mickey Macgruder, and eats a PB-&-pickle sandwich, so it's all there but ... not. "U" was almost clinical, and "V" still does not manage to make Kinsey's involvement with the case more interesting than the case itself.
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