PK the Bookeemonster: It's been a long week

Friday, August 10, 2018

It's been a long week

It's been a rough week.

Over 100 degrees today and tomorrow.

Other than a haircut tomorrow morning and a quick grocery run afterward, I'm hibernating in the basement.

I hope to put some good time in on my book both days. Yes, still beginning stages.

I'm enjoying the Bujold book a lot. But I also need to start reading A IS FOR ALIBI by Sue Grafton. 1^st of 25 in series featuring Kinsey Millhone, a private eye in fictional Santa Teresa, California

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access, and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. The jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband. A trail that is eight years cold. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter, wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively loyal to a dead partner—and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to an ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely—and still angry over Fife's betrayal of her; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few skills—and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include every turn until it finally twists back on itself with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder.

Published 1982; 320 pages. It's the next series read for 4MA yahoo group. I chose it because of Grafton's recent passing plus I haven't read it since it first came out in the 80s. Time for a re-read. And nothing like a flashback to the 1980s.