Review: B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton

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Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled--a matter of only a few thousand dollars. Mrs. Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars. And she didn't seem like someone longing for a family reunion.
Still, business was slow, and even a private investigator has bills to pay. Millhone took the job. It looked routine.
Elaine Boldt's wrappings were a good deal flashier than her sister's, but they signaled the same thing: The lady had money. A rich widow in her early forties, she owned a condo in Boca Raton and another in Santa Teresa. According to the manager of the California building, she was last seen draped in her $12,000 lynx coat heading for Boca Raton. According to the manager of the Florida building, she never got there. But someone else had and she was camping out illegally in Mrs. Boldt's apartment. The job was beginning to seem a bit less routine.
It turned tricky when Beverly Danziger ordered Millhone to drop the case and it took on an ominous quality when Aubrey Danziger surfaced, making all kinds of wild accusations about his wife. But it only became sinister when Millhone learned that just days before Elaine Boldt went missing, her next-door neighbor and bridge partner had been murdered and the killer was still at large.
A house destroyed by arson. A brutally murdered a woman. A missing lynx coat. An apartment burgled of valueless papers, another ransacked in a melée of mindless destruction. And more murder. As Millhone digs deeper into the case, she finds herself in a nightmarish hall of mirrors in which reality is distorted by illusion and nothing--except danger--is quite what it seems.

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I waited quite a while for this one from the public library because I had thoroughly enjoyed the first one and couldn’t wait to dive into this one. I managed to read it in just two sittings over about a 30 hour period. Let me tell you, this series has effectively dragged me out of an awful several month long reading slump.

So we come upon our friend, Kinsey Millhone once again. And once again she finds herself in a situation that somewhat makes the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. I love the fact that these are action packed and intense novels that get your blood pumping and your adrenaline level rising.

Those who have followed my reviews will note that this is outside the realm of the usual genres that I read, but I am so glad for the distraction as I was apparently getting burned out a bit on my usual fare and had not been able to really enjoy a book in a while.

This particular novel is fairly well edited (I only found maybe 3 small errors with an extra word or a missing word in the whole thing!). The author has a way of crafting a novel such that the reader feels as though they are a part of the action and experiencing the events along with the characters and that is an incredible feat with some of today’s authors.

While this is an older novel and not something just newly available on the market, it is definitely 100% worth the read. If you love a good mystery or suspense novel, then you definitely want to give this series a go.

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