"J" is for Judgment
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
5 journalers for this copy...
Mailing today to lauraloo29 as a RABCK, in celebration of my registering 700 books!
Received today as a RABCK. Thank you! Will add to Mount TBR. :)
Another easy read. Although the ending leaves me a little unsettled. Not to worry!
Accepted by Pyan as part of the "Another anything goes and international too" Relay
Received today ... thank you!
Publisher's Weekly Review:
In her 10th alphabet adventure, Southern California PI Kinsey Milhone is working again for California Fidelity, navigating her way through a plot-driven tale that will remind readers of her earliest appearances, despite Grafton's deft introduction of new material.
Shady financier Wendell Jaffe has recently been decreed dead, five years after his real estate empire collapsed and he disappeared from his beloved 35-foot ketch off the coast, an apparent suicide. California Fidelity has just paid his widow $500,000. But then Jaffe is spotted in Mexico with another woman.
Kinsey's investigation lands her in some tough spots (such as a drunken stranger's hotel room where she pretends to be a hooker), gets her shot at and leads to a dramatic resolution at sea.
It also introduces her to a genealogist who requires Kinsey to revise her notion of herself as an orphan alone in the world. While maintaining full control of her plot's variously colored threads, many of which are tied to Jaffe's family (his 18-year-old son is on the lam from a murder charge), Grafton cameos such familiar characters as Kinsey's octogenarian landlord Henry, his older brother William, and Rose, the neighborhood bar owner. But the spotlight remains on Kinsey who, without a love interest to distract her, sticks to the case at hand and tries, with limited success, to assimilate the existence of a not too distant family, whom readers will likely learn more of in "K."
In her 10th alphabet adventure, Southern California PI Kinsey Milhone is working again for California Fidelity, navigating her way through a plot-driven tale that will remind readers of her earliest appearances, despite Grafton's deft introduction of new material.
Shady financier Wendell Jaffe has recently been decreed dead, five years after his real estate empire collapsed and he disappeared from his beloved 35-foot ketch off the coast, an apparent suicide. California Fidelity has just paid his widow $500,000. But then Jaffe is spotted in Mexico with another woman.
Kinsey's investigation lands her in some tough spots (such as a drunken stranger's hotel room where she pretends to be a hooker), gets her shot at and leads to a dramatic resolution at sea.
It also introduces her to a genealogist who requires Kinsey to revise her notion of herself as an orphan alone in the world. While maintaining full control of her plot's variously colored threads, many of which are tied to Jaffe's family (his 18-year-old son is on the lam from a murder charge), Grafton cameos such familiar characters as Kinsey's octogenarian landlord Henry, his older brother William, and Rose, the neighborhood bar owner. But the spotlight remains on Kinsey who, without a love interest to distract her, sticks to the case at hand and tries, with limited success, to assimilate the existence of a not too distant family, whom readers will likely learn more of in "K."
Journal Entry 8 by Pyan at RABCK in RABCK, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, February 26, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (2/26/2006 UTC) at RABCK in RABCK, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Mailing off to AceOfHearts who won in my February RABCK contest. Enjoy!
Mailing off to AceOfHearts who won in my February RABCK contest. Enjoy!
received from Pyan as a RABCK Thank you so much, I only need one more to complete the series Yippee!!
My mom, AceofHearts, passed away from breast cancer on September 17, 2013. Aside from being one of the best people I know, she was an avid reader and took immense pleasure in Bookcrossing, her book club, and reading many great books. Unfortunately she didn't get around to reading this book.
I will be releasing this in my mom's memory.
I will be releasing this in my mom's memory.
Journal Entry 11 by HoserLauren at PATH (Toronto's downtown walkway) in Toronto, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Released 8 yrs ago (2/8/2016 UTC) at PATH (Toronto's downtown walkway) in Toronto, Ontario Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To the finder of this book: I hope you enjoy reading this book. Please keep it or set it free when you're done. If the book is of no interest to you, please release it into the wild for someone else to find and enjoy. I hope you will make a journal entry so its journey can be tracked and to let me know the book has been found. You can remain anonymous if you wish, but if you join BookCrossing, you are in for a great experience and I do hope you will use my mom, AceofHearts, as a referring member.
