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Post by Daisy Pusher on Nov 18, 2009 19:06:28 GMT -4
Since we have been ripping Patricia Cornwell for driving Kay Scarpetta into the ground, let's flip this pancake over and have a thread to talk about mystery writer Sue Grafton and her kickass heroine, Kinsey Millhone (I don't think there is a thread on this and if so, sorry, mods).
Grafton's latest installment in the alphabet series comes out on December 1 (U is for Undertow). She's up to 21 novels and I still love Kinsey and her peanut butter & pickle sandwiches. The fact that Grafton has been doing this for over 25 years is remarkable to me. I can't believe that there's only 5 more to go. And the books are always really good (no werewolves and insane nieces here). Anybody else a Millhone fan?
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Post by ikmccall on Nov 18, 2009 19:15:04 GMT -4
I haven't read a Milhone book in years but I used to love them. They were better than Janet Evanovich books. But I always wished that Kinsey would go shopping and have more than that one navy blue dress.
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Post by Yossarian on Nov 18, 2009 19:22:28 GMT -4
I love love LOVE these books. Kinsey is a kick-ass heroine and she hasn't been turned into a complete asshole but her creator.
I love that they're set in the 1980s. All these crime novels that rely on super-duper forensic science kind of lose something in their telling. I don't want to read about how you scrape back a bone to extract the DNA or how a fly's gestation period in a cadaver can date the dumping of a corpse. Ugh, I'm reading a Kathy Reichs right now and that boring stuff is exactly what I'm reading. No, I like to read about characters and observations - which is what Grafton does so well.
Can't wait for the new one!
But these books always make me want to eat a quarter pounder.
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Post by ikmccall on Nov 18, 2009 22:32:16 GMT -4
I love Kinsey's junk food diet! And her VW Beetle. And the books being set in the 80's? She usually has to go find a payphone!
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Post by ratscabies on Dec 5, 2009 0:33:38 GMT -4
I love Kinsey. I love all the books. I love QP's w/ cheese.
In one of the early Burglar Who... books, Lawrence Block takes the piss out of Grafton's alphabet gimmick. The used bookstore owner is talking to his friend about the price of a First Edition of "A is for Alibi", and they start talking about later books in the series. But it was before she had written anything after B or C, so he was making them all up. My favorite was "G is for String", the one about the murdered stripper.
I am looking forward to the next one. I like how each one starts almost right after the last.
You guys aren't gonna start a thread to destroy my love of the V.I. Warshawski books, are you?
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