V is for Vengeance
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Average rating3.8
A woman with a murky past who kills herself-or was it murder? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system. A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring working for the Mob, racking up millions from stolen goods. A wandering husband, rich and ruthless. A dirty cop so entrenched on the force he is immune to exposure. A sinister gangster, conscienceless and brutal. A lonely widower mourning the death of his lover, desperate for answers, which may be worse than the pain of his loss. A private detective, Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth-birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her with two black eyes and a busted nose.
And an elegant and powerful businessman whose dealings are definitely outside the law: the magus at the center of the web.
V: Victim. Violence. Vengeance.
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24 primary books25 released books#22 in Kinsey Millhone
Kinsey Millhone is a 25-book series with 24 released primary works first released in 1981 with contributions by Sue Grafton.
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Having read 22 books in this series, Kinsey Millhone is one of my comfort foods of mystery.
This story was so long and drawn out that I felt like giving up on it. It has all these side stories that don't seem to mesh but then eventually did. It just wasn't very entertaining along the way so I almost gave up. I only stuck it out because I want to read all the books in this series and I'm almost done.
Another road trip book. While this one was infinitely better than [b:X 24940998 X (Kinsey Millhone, #24) Sue Grafton https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1429811123l/24940998.SY75.jpg 44598633] (lol at listening to the Alphabet in order), it definitely felt kind of ... long. (I suspect the Pinky storyline could have been cut entirely, but perhaps editors stopped trimming the fat on some of these later books?) I like Kinsey Millhone, but like, if you hate the Chardonnay at Rosie's so much, maybe try a different drink? Or go to a different bar?The description of this book gives you basically no information about the story within; it's about a shoplifting crime ring and the mafia-esque man whose family runs the operation. That story was pretty good. I also appreciate the consistency of Judy Kaye reading all the Kinsey books, as she has the perfect voice for this series.I don't find these books to be exceptional or anything, but they're fun, cozy mysteries if you don't mind your cozy with a dollop of sarcasm and complaining about bad wine.
