"J" is for Judgment
Registered by dodau of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire United Kingdom on 9/10/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by dodau from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire United Kingdom on Saturday, September 10, 2005
From Publishers Weekly
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.
Sending to someone who has it on their wish list.
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.
Sending to someone who has it on their wish list.
Journal Entry 2 by dodau at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (9/13/2005 UTC) at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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Received in the mail today as a suprise from Dodau! Thank you so much for this book, I am up to letter "C" in the series and I almost have all the books now. I can't wait to read this one it looks really good :)
Thanks for this great books for postage deal!
This was the first of Grafton's books I've read and I enjoyed it. The story was told at a fairly leisurely pace, but still managed to be suspenseful. I have another book from this series that I'll be reading soon.
Journal Entry 6 by minerva1221 at Baylor Health Center (Texas Instruments) in Dallas, Texas USA on Monday, January 21, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (1/21/2008 UTC) at Baylor Health Center (Texas Instruments) in Dallas, Texas USA
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RELEASE NOTES: Left in the seating area near the receptionist in the TI side of the building.
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