F is for Fugitive
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Bailey Fowler, a long-time fugitive convicted of the murder of seventeen-year-old Jean Timberlake, has been captured. When his terminally-ill father asks P.I. Kinsey Millhone to prove Bailey's innocence, Kinsey heads to Floral Beach, California. She quickly finds herself engulfed by small-town gossip and secrets. As she unravels layers of deceit and dysfunction, Kinsey angers more than one person, and when more residents become the target of a murderer, Kinsey realizes that there's nothing 'private' about this tiny town....
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24 primary books26 released books#6 in Kinsey Millhone
Kinsey Millhone is a 26-book series with 25 primary works first released in 1981 with contributions by Sue Grafton.
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There's not a lot of flash or cleverness to Grafton's Millhone mysteries, but they get the job done in a most satisfying way. This time out, Millhone travels up the coast (or maybe down, my California geography is spotty) to help a dying father clear the name of his son who took a dumb plea bargain years ago to keep himself from a murder conviction.
Kinsey's sharp eye for detail is well-displayed here, as is her razor sharp wit (still not utilized as often as Spenser's or early-Elvis Cole's). The pace is quick, the characters compelling (if not all that sympathetic)–a heckuva read.
I actually had this murderer guessed pretty early on, but it was still a fast and entertaining read just like all the Kinsey Millhone mysteries.
