Search - K is for Killer (Kinsey Millhone, Bk 11)

You can't go wrong reading a Sue Grafton book. Kinsey Milhone is smart, slightly offbeat, but totally relateable.

Is it me or are these books starting to lose their originality and freshness?

When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can't let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months cold. Kinsey pieces together Lorna's young life: a dull day job a the local water treatment plant spiced by sidelines in prostitution and pornography. She tangles with Lorna's friends: a local late-night DJ; a sweet, funny teenaged hooker; Lorna's sloppy landlord and his exotic wife. But to find out which one, if any, turned killer, Kinsey will have to inhabit a netherworld from which she may never return.

I have to say of all the books in the Alphabet series I've read to date, this is my least favorite. I was sucked in immediately and couldn't put the book down...that is, until the end. What a waste! It left me feeling??? Loose ends galore! I understand what Sue Grafton was trying to do, but I think she could've answered a few questions before just ending it. It felt like to me, it was an "easy" way out. I will start "L" soon and hoping not to be let down this time.

Another good read by Sue Grafton. I never saw this ending coming.

Good book. Kind of slow moving in some places.