E de evidencia (Alfabeto del crimen nº 1) (Spanish Edition) (edição: 2015)

Maybe I'm just getting tired of the character (I've read four of these over the last few months), but this one was just very meh for me. At least it was a quick read. ( )

The more of these I read, the more I like Kinsey Milhone. I like the way her past is intertwined with the present in this book, with characters mentioned in previous outings getting a full and proper introduction here. I also like the fact that this series isn’t : meet client, investigate case, solve case. There’s a lot of interesting deviation from what could become formulaic. I am beginning to wonder what her medical insurance premium will be if she keeps up her current run of injuries. ( )

Nice and short read ( )

Wow! Nonstop action in this one and a man from Kinsey's past shows up. Kinsey gets an unexpected $5,000 deposited in her account which leads to her bring fingered as taking kick backs at the insurance company she rents space from as well as does work for at times. Tracking down who is setting her up leads Kinsey involved in a family at each other's throats and her seeing one of her ex husband's.

This was a cool case to follow. Kinsey is working for herself and doing her best to clear her name. She's at loose ends on the home front cause Henry is gone to visit his siblings. Maybe that's why she was naive enough to allow her ex husband Daniel to stay with her. Though I have to say the guy shows his true colors pretty fast.

There's a lot of going back and forth with characters we are introduced to in this one. It's a winding road to get to how Kinsey was set up and how it has to do with the insurance company she works at. We also get an ugly reveal about a family that still gives me the creeps.

The writing was good and the flow worked. Kinsey is running injured for a good portion of this book and often I kept thinking how like the Energizer Bunny she was. I would have laid down somewhere and been done.

This is always one of my favorite reads cause the events in this book lead Kinsey to getting a new home.

The setting of Santa Teresa though it's Christmas time feels desolate and lonely. It could be though cause Kinsey is left with few friends since some wonder could she be guilty of taking bribes. With Henry gone, she doesn't even have someone to talk things over with.

The epilogue has Kinsey injured and homeless and turning her back on her ex husband. ( )

***This is a project of e-reading Grafton's series -- I started reading these back in the 1980s and would read each release as they came out over the years. To prevent spoilers, I will not attempt to summarize in detail. ***

Kinsey finds herself framed, related to a case she‘s working on, and must clear her good name. No surprises in this re-read, as this particular mystery is one I remember well all these years later. Maybe because it's the one where we meet one of Kinsey's ex-husbands, and the Wood family, where the first names were "woodsy" names -- Linden, Olive, Ebony, Bass.

These Grafton mysteries have been good re-reads so far, but have noticed casual references to “black maids” answering the doors and such. I‘ll have to see if author Grafton and Kinsey improve in this aspect. I don‘t recall if they did in the later mysteries. Although the entire series takes place in the 1980s, I‘m still where they were *actually* written in the 1980s. ( )