W is for Wasted
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Journal Entry 1 by 
catsalive
from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Friday, September 2, 2016
catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Friday, September 2, 2016
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Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.
The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him.
Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes.
But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange links begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey finds the key to his identity . . .
In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised . . .
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I was very tired of this series, & it seemed the author was too as they were all very predictable & samey, so I hadn't read one for 7 years when I picked this one up. Despite it being a brick of a book with a bit too much padding, I enjoyed this Kinsey Milhone casebook very much - more than expected. The break from Grafton's writing has been worth it, certainly the story is a lot fresher than the last one I read so long ago. The last one I read was R is for Ricochet.
Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.
The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him.
Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes.
But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange links begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey finds the key to his identity . . .
In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised . . .
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I was very tired of this series, & it seemed the author was too as they were all very predictable & samey, so I hadn't read one for 7 years when I picked this one up. Despite it being a brick of a book with a bit too much padding, I enjoyed this Kinsey Milhone casebook very much - more than expected. The break from Grafton's writing has been worth it, certainly the story is a lot fresher than the last one I read so long ago. The last one I read was R is for Ricochet.
Journal Entry 2 by catsalive at QLD, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, September 17, 2016
catsalive at QLD, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, September 17, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (9/15/2016 UTC) at QLD, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Sent to tantan from the Oz VBB.
Received today - many thanks!
Another enjoyable Kinsey Millhone story. As with catsalive, it had been a long time since I had read one of these as well, and I think I enjoyed it all the more because of that.
Claimed on the Oz VBB - enjoy!
Thanks tantan. Also been a while since either of us here have read any in the series. Not many to go now!
