U Is for Undertow A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Grafton Judy Kaye Random House Audio Books
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Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Even more so when Kinsey Millhone's only lead is a grown man dredging up a repressed childhood memory-of something that may never have happened...
U Is for Undertow A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Grafton Judy Kaye Random House Audio Books
All of the Kinsey Millhone novels are good. Sue Grafton has maintained an unmatched level of quality throughout this entire series. I don't think she gets enough credit for this. In contrast, Marcia Muller's recent Sharon McCone stories have gone off the rails a bit. Bill Pronzini, my other fave private eye novelist, also seems to be getting a little tired. Grafton just keeps on chugging through the alphabet, releasing good fresh Kinsey stories. Writing novels is hard work, and writing a series of this length so well is unprecedented.In U is For Undertow she skilfully weaves past and present, draws complex, believable characters, and builds a simple but satisfying puzzle that is complex for Kinsey to unravel. I especially appreciate Grafton's attention to detail. She gives detailed physical descriptions of her characters, and introduces them in a way that makes it easy to remember and keep track of them. I even like the turn-by-turn driving directions and other details of the character's activities, because it creates a flowing visual in my mind like a movie. Lesser authors gloss over these things so I have to go back and re-read passages to keep track of who's who, and what they did. Thumbs up for U is for Undertow, and a big thumbs up for consistently delivering the goods throughout this whole series.
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U Is for Undertow A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Grafton Judy Kaye Random House Audio Books Reviews
If you haven't already, you may find yourself wanting to read every one of the twenty-one novels by Sue Grafton. They spread through the years from 1982, and through the alphabet from "A is for Alibi" and "B is for Burglar" to "T is for Trespass" and "U is for Undertow," the latest one. Four more will get her to "Z is for Zero," which she has already named. Reportedly, her plans are to finish by 2015. Will we and she be around for five more years? We old readers all hope.
Sue Grafton is a joy to read, a master of her craft. All the stories are different. All have one thing in common the main character, Kinsey Millhone, a young private detective in Santa Teresa, California. Millhone rhymes with phone, so don't try to make it sound Italian.
Kinsey is less irascible than dogged and determined. She is persistent, and quick with a thought, a put-down, or fast action. She can point and shoot a firearm with accuracy. Try getting too close to her, and she'll set you right. Early, she served two years in the police department in Santa Teresa, California. But her independence won out and she left, though she still gets along and cooperates with them. Kinsey is intrepid, intelligent, resourceful, in-your-face, profane, and no-nonsense.
Kinsey's two marriages are history. She prefers shorter term intimacies. Her good friend and confidant Henry is her octogenarian landlord who lives in the house in front of her converted garage apartment. After an explosion razed the apartment, Henry rebuilt it, giving the feel of a sleekly appointed boat, complete with polished trim, porthole, galley, circular stairway to the bedroom loft, and skylight.
"Undertow" is a study in contrasts of upper class respectability versus some of that class's own adult children's opting out for hippie-style wandering, poor grooming, rudeness, arrogance, and disrespect for ordinary civilities, all the while knowing they can still stop back to hang around briefly for food and to finagle for finances. Sue Grafton unwaveringly grasps the conflicts and language. Her presentation of dialogue is uncanny. Be cautious, the text is unexpurgated.
The basic story is that a four-year-old girl named Mary Claire who is kidnapped for ransom in 1967 and never found. An upper-class small boy, age 6, witnessed two "pirates" in the woods, digging for "buried treasure," they told him. Now twenty-one years later, the boy is a young man who believes that the two guys were actually burying Mary Claire. He had gone to the local police, who had doubts and sent him to Kinsey Millhone. The young man would like to remember exactly where he had been at the time, and is willing to pay the price for her help.
The story becomes quite complex, hopping back and forth between 1988 and 1967. The reader might be tempted to use Kinsey's own usual method of using 3-by-5 cards to make notes to keep individuals and events straight. As an aside, and along the way, Kinsey learns much more about her orphaned childhood and the extended family she believed deserted her. Aficionados will love this latest tome (402 pages), and new readers will find that it has enough background information to bring them up to speed. They might be encouraged to trek back to Kinsey's apartment, follow her on her daily three-mile morning run, sit with her a half block away at Rosie's for a Hungarian dinner, and meet Henry's siblings, all over ninety years old. Sue Grafton is a highly pleasurable read. But a warning, don't be shocked.
I enjoy reading Sue Grafton's alphabet series. Although these books are not complex they are enjoyable. I like to read a variety of genres of books with varying complexity. If you know that these books are light-hearted before you begin, you will thoroughly enjoy them.
I am amazed that Sue Grafton can weave a seemingly random turn of events into a 20 year old mystery that comes together like a Swiss watch. I really enjoy seeing Kinsey battle the mystery and also see her understanding more about her childhood and extended family. Now, I am on to the next!
I don't know when I first started reading the Kinsey Millhone series, but I was hooked by A IS FOR ALIBI, and have enjoyed the subsequent series enormously. It take a lot of work and talent to write one successful book. But to have produced twenty-six really good reads is amazing.
I hadn't read Sue Grafton for a long time, but I happened to be in a doctor's office recently when I noticed U IS FOR UNDERTOW sitting on the floor under a chair. I picked it up and was immediately hooked. For those of you reading this now who want to be writers, pick up this book and read the beginning, then study it. It is a prefect example of how to hook a reader.
Now I am not really a reader of mysteries, but I left my doctor's appointment dying to know what happened next, so I immediately bought it on and read it in about a day. This novel is about a character who may be suffering from an implanted memory. Or he might be telling the truth. At the beginning, it's really not clear which, but Kinsey Millhone is determined to find out, and there is a very dramatic scene at the end in which she saves someone's life. Which I won't say more about so as not to spoil the story.
In any event, because the protagonist of this story is so unreliable, Ms. Grafton has to layer in other people's points of view, so that the reader can make sense of what is going on. Again, if you want to write yourself, study these passage carefully as they are a good example of how to use this technique successfully. (Many new writers find this hard to do right).
If you love mysteries, read this book! Five stars.
All of the Kinsey Millhone novels are good. Sue Grafton has maintained an unmatched level of quality throughout this entire series. I don't think she gets enough credit for this. In contrast, Marcia Muller's recent Sharon McCone stories have gone off the rails a bit. Bill Pronzini, my other fave private eye novelist, also seems to be getting a little tired. Grafton just keeps on chugging through the alphabet, releasing good fresh Kinsey stories. Writing novels is hard work, and writing a series of this length so well is unprecedented.
In U is For Undertow she skilfully weaves past and present, draws complex, believable characters, and builds a simple but satisfying puzzle that is complex for Kinsey to unravel. I especially appreciate Grafton's attention to detail. She gives detailed physical descriptions of her characters, and introduces them in a way that makes it easy to remember and keep track of them. I even like the turn-by-turn driving directions and other details of the character's activities, because it creates a flowing visual in my mind like a movie. Lesser authors gloss over these things so I have to go back and re-read passages to keep track of who's who, and what they did. Thumbs up for U is for Undertow, and a big thumbs up for consistently delivering the goods throughout this whole series.
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