S Is For Silence: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (A Kinsey Millhone Novel)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739341855 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 570 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Millhone's life is modest and familiar, though her love life, now featuring police detective Cheney Phillips, tends to be oddly remote. Constant revelations concerning several absorbing characters allow a terrific tension to build. Violet's daughter, Daisy, who was seven at the time, hires Millhone to discover her mother's true fate. However, the utterly illogical and oddly abrupt ending undermines what is otherwise one of the stronger offerings in this iconic series. From Publishers Weekly Kinsey Millhone has kept her appeal by being distinctive and sympathetic without craving center stage. While some mysteries that provide the PI's shoe size or most despised food create a forced and intrusive intimacy, a master like Grafton makes the relationship relaxe
Stephen said S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mystery). S is for Silence was a real page turner and a far better read than R is for Richochet. The only thing I don't like is the jumping back and forth with the present and the flashbacks to fill in the story background. I feel it would have been better if it started with the background and continued from there. Violet Sullivan while not the idea. Bummed out by new third-person narrative S is for jumping the Shark. I'd enjoyed the previous titles in the series tremendously, but Grafton lost me when she introduced the awkward third-person narrative. It doesn't make sense for one thing—an author's trick of sorts—to fabricate a third-person story that is definitely not "respectfully submitted" by her delightful na. D. Plass said Boring flashbacks, no motive for the minor character who did it.. The flashbacks were so long and drawn out that eventually I stopped reading them. Grafton never explained the *motive* for the crime, only *who* did it. And, like other reviewers, I was annoyed that it was such a minor character who Kinsey only talked to once throughout the whole book. I thought for sure it was Chet
She was never seen again. S is for silence: the silence of the lost, the silence of the missing, the silence of oblivion.Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. Some said she was murdered by her husband. Some said she’d run off with a lover. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, her absence has never been explained or forgotten.Now, thirty-four years later, she wants the solace of closure.In S is for Silence, Kinsey Millhone’s nineteenth excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, S is for surprises as Sue Grafton takes a whole new approach to telling the tale. And S is for superb: Kinsey and Grafton at their best.