Search - Q is for Quarry (Kinsey Millhone, Bk 17)

Hard to put down this book! The writing gets better with each book, and the storyline in this one is based on a real story. There are twists and turns that you don't anticipate, even if you've read the other books in this series and are familiar with her writing style.

This was a very good book. The story takes many twists and turns as the PI Kinsey Millhone is asked to help find out who the teenager Jane Doe was that was stabbed and dumped in a quarry and never identified.

This book was inspired by a real case in Santa Barbara, California.
Very easy and enjoyable reading on many levels. The main character Kinsey is funny, and quirky. She tells you about her life as she works on her case.

Another memorable story in a much-loved series.

Very good, Kinsey Milhone good as usual.

Another outstanding Kinsey Milhone mystery.

I enjoyed this book just like all the books in this series about Kinsey Millhone, a private detective. This one has her trying to solve a cold case of a Jane Doe who has never been identified.

A really good book to a really good detective series.

As always, Sue Grafton is fantastic, typical Grafton read, if you like the author, you like these books

If you like Kinsey Millhone, you will like this one. Even her 85 year old hunk of a landlord, retired baker Henry and his irritable older brother having a romance with the elderly bosssy Hungarian Rosie, the owner/chef of Rosies cafe and her "Hunglish". A lot more about Kinseys family and background. Not as tight as other Graftons

One of the my favorites in the Kinsey Millhone series.

good

good

My favorite Kinsey Milhone mystery to date-- it had some good interactions with her extended family, a real-life mystery behind it, and a compelling storyline.

easy read from Grafton

Spunky and fun. Back in 1969, many young people were hitting the road and disappearing. Many are killed. 18 years later a Jane Doe appeared and Kate Millihone is called for help.

Another one of the 'alphabet murder' books - great as usual

Everybody's favorite female-author-female-lead mystery series, right? It's hard to beat Sue Grafton and Kinsey Millhone, a private detective in Santa Teresa, California.

Another great Grafton novel!

She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved.

That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case. Old and ill, they need someone to help with their legwork and they turn to Kinsey Millhone. They will, they tell her, find closure if they can just identify the victim. Kinsey is intrigued and agrees to the job.

But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.

Q is for Quarry is based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, and Grafton's interest in the case has generated renewed police efforts. During the past year, the body was exhumed and a nationally known forensic artist did the facial reconstruction that appears in the closing pages of Q is for Quarry. Both Grafton and the dedicated members of the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department are hoping the photograph will trigger memories that may lead to a positive identification.

On the day Jane Doe was reburied, many officers were at the gravesite. "It's eerie," Grafton writes, "to think about the power this woman still has. Here we are, thirty-three years later, and she still wants to go home."

Excellent,I enjoy all her books.