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V is for Vengeance de Sue Grafton
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V is for Vengeance (edição: 2012)

de Sue Grafton

Séries: Kinsey Millhone (22)

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California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for hi
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Título:V is for Vengeance
Autores:Sue Grafton
Informação:Pan Books (2012), Paperback
Coleções:Sua biblioteca
Avaliação:***1/2
Etiquetas:Fiction, Crime, Alphabet

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V is for Vengeance de Sue Grafton

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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Kinsey witnesses and reports a shoplifter in action. She then ends up going off a bridge. This opens up a can of worms of a international shoplifting network, a corrupt policeman, and a gangster helping the corrupt cop try to bring down his brother?s scheme. A good read.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
(2011)Kinsey witnesses a shoplifting duo, tries to track them down and is drawn into a shoplifting racket run by the Dante brothers. A crooked cop muddies up the waters as she tries find out why one of the lifters took a header off of a local bridge. Blackmail and mob violence ensue. Very good, Grafton just gets better and better as Kinsey finally makes it to 1988. (Wikipedia):For the fourth straight novel in the Kinsey Milhone series (dating back to "S" Is for Silence), the viewpoint alternates between Milhone and other characters, principally Nora Vogelsang and Lorenzo Dante. The opening chapter, however, is told from the perspective of a well-to-do young man, Peter Lanahan, who borrows money from Dante, misses the payback date, and then loses it playing poker in Vegas. Dante and his brother Cappi show up, and Dante agrees to take Peter's Porsche as satisfaction of the debt. However, after Dante sends Peter and Cappi up to look at the car, Cappi has thugs throw Peter off the top of the parking garage to his death.In the main storyline, Milhone witnesses a woman shoplifting with a confederate inside Nordstrom's. She tells a nearby clerk, who alerts store security, and they capture and arrest the woman, named Audrey, before she can escape. While this is going on, Milhone follows her confederate and is almost run over by her in the parking garage. Right after her release from jail, Audrey apparently commits suicide. Shortly thereafter, Milhone runs into a former boyfriend in the police department, Cheney Phillips, who is out for the evening with a vice officer, Len Priddy (a friend of Milhone's first husband and a longtime enemy of hers), and his much-younger girlfriend, Abbey. Priddy mocks the theory that Audrey was part of a shoplifting ring, but Audrey's boyfriend hires Milhone to investigate that theory.Meanwhile, Dante realizes that the police are closing in on his operation. Audrey was head of his shoplifting operation, but Cappi murdered her upon her release from jail because he believed she was about to turn them in. Dante believes that Cappi has been giving information to Priddy to set up his brother, so that he can take over. Nora, who has been drifting apart from her husband for the last three years (which we later learn began with the death of her son from her firsat marriage, Peter), learns that her lawyer husband is having an affair with his secretary. She decides to sell her possessions so that she can have money to flee, but in trying to see an expensive ring, she is referred to Dante, who is smitten with her and offers her more than fair value for the ring.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
First edition signed Christmas card laid in. This book from the Grafton estate .
  dgmathis | Mar 18, 2023 |
I love Kinsey Millhone. But she's not everyone's cup of tea. I started reading the Alphabet series a few years ago - I think at the time it was up to O is for Outlaw. The idea of a mystery series each title beginning with a new letter amused me. I don't know why. I don't think it's particularly original. At least - I've seen a few others since. At the time though it was new to me and it just struck me as perfect. I flew through the series. Kinsey is riveting. She's brash and harsh and charming. She's fierce and flawed. She gets scared. She holds her own. She pushes herself to run often and tackles cases without judgement and with an open mind. Rosie and Henry are brilliant and I love the little family she builds around her.

But Kinsey Millhone isn't Jack Reacher - her speed is more Tracy Crosswhite. [book:My Sister's Grave|22341263] Her cases aren't full of action and high speed chases - they're slowly nitpicking away until something clicks into place. She writes down all her thoughts and places her facts and ideas on 3x5 index cards - which she often shuffles and rearranges to help her solve her case. And I love it. Kinsey Millhone is great - but she's not for everyone.

For some reason I've seen reviewers compare this to Stephanie Plum - I don't know why - this is absolutely NOTHING like that. Stephanie Plum is a very different character and an extremely different type of book. That's more fluff. Kinsey Millhone is more procedural mysteries. And this series isn't current - it was first published in the 80's - there's not really technology. Messages were relayed by calling the landlines. Paper files were still the main form of storage. Not everyone will enjoy reading this. But if you like your mysteries to be more like procedurals with a determined and fierce character - Kinsey Millhone is for you.



This was a bit slow to get into but once I had it was fantastic. Diana Alvarez from the previous book (she's the sister of Michael) makes an appearance - she's just as annoying as she was in that one. Henry phones in a few times. Rosie and William make their usual appearances - although Kinsey also goes with William to a funeral - you know, his favourite thing to do. The best appearance though was from Pinky Ford - the guy who gifted Kinsey with her first set of lockpicks and showed her how to use them. Aww. He was the best. He was definitely the loveable rascal Kinsey painted him as - although I was sad for him that his partner, Dodie dies. I also really liked the villain in this, Dante and I totally guessed where Nora fit into everything. Although I was actually disappointed by that in the end - I rather liked Dante and I liked the idea of him and Nora being happy. I mean they were anyway but I would've liked them to be happy without the death of her son hanging over it. I loved Nora's plans for revenge - her husband is cheating on her with the secretary and taking her to events - but worse, the secretary is wearing her clothes - so Nora goes to the other house and picks up all the clothes right before they have an event. Lol genius. Plus she tells the husband she sent over someone else to pick up the stuff, so he doesn't think she knows. The mystery was interesting and as usual, Kinsey's inner commentary had me amused.



4 stars. ( )
  funstm | Jan 26, 2023 |
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Here we are all the way up to V, and Sue Grafton is still springing narrative surprises. Grafton is of course the author of the series featuring the California private eye Kinsey Millhone. The titles for the books run through the alphabet, beginning almost 30 years ago with A is for Alibi. Now, in V is for Vengeance, Grafton performs the unthinkable by presenting readers with a portrait of the book’s major villain that is much more sympathetic than condemning.

The story begins with Millhone in the lingerie section of the local Nordstrom’s. That’s unlikely territory for casual Kinsey who usually confines her clothes shopping to low-end chain stores. In Nordstrom’s, she spots a 50ish woman who is carrying out slick pieces of shoplifting among the store’s silk lounge wear. In swift order, Kinsey alerts store security who pack the woman off to jail from which she’s soon released on bail. Next day, the shoplifter’s body is found at the bottom of a very high bridge, apparently a suicide.

Suffering from a guilty conscience over her role in the woman’s death, Kinsey decides to dig into the story behind the so-called suicide. Sure enough, she finds plenty of fishy people and puzzling events. All of this is usual in the Millhone books. Indeed, familiarity in concept and characters makes one of the series’ great comforts.

So we relax into the byplay involving Kinsey’s octogenarian landlord Henry and Henry’s equally aged but spry siblings. These people, as supporting characters, are unfailingly entertaining. In the new book, brother William’s disquisition on the value of attending the visitation and funeral of a complete stranger is alone worth the price of admission.

Meanwhile, as the cozy story of Kinsey’s life and investigation unfolds, all of it told in her first-person voice, Grafton drops in third-person chapters that trace the tale of a sinister but attractive man named Lorenzo Dante. This fellow happens to be the secretive capo of the mob as it exists in Kinsey’s hometown of Santa Teresa and environs.

Dante is rich, but has problems. His father, the retired capo, is blind to forces that threaten the mob’s existence. Dante’s younger brother is a psycho killer. Dante himself has been long planning an escape from this turmoil into an extravagantly funded retirement far from big time crime.

Though Kinsey’s crime solving has its fascinations, the reader becomes more deeply involved in Dante’s dilemmas. Will he evade his own mob’s clutches? And what about a woman who enters the plot, the wife of a wealthy lawyer? Is she part of Dante’s escape package? Gradually, these pressing questions upstage Kinsey’s adventures. Who, at this advanced stage in the Millhone saga, would have imagined such a delicious turn of events?
adicionado por VivienneR | editarThe Toronto Star, Jack Batten (Dec 31, 2011)
 
Kinsey plays a smaller role in this story, which may not please some of her many fans, but Grafton's pioneering sleuth is as clever and witty as ever.
adicionado por Christa_Josh | editarLibrary Journal, Linda Oliver (Oct 15, 2011)
 

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