Cheryl M. reviewed S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone, Bk 19) (Abridged Audio CD) on + 170 more book reviews
Loved the story. Listened on a long car trip and enjoyed it thoroughly! She is a great story teller!
Angie B. (angjay) reviewed S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone, Bk 19) (Abridged Audio CD) on + 122 more book reviews
Kinsey Millhone has kept her appeal by being distinctive and sympathetic without craving center stage. While some mysteries that provide the PI's shoe size or most despised food create a forced and intrusive intimacy, a master like Grafton makes the relationship relaxed and reassuring. Millhone's life is modest and familiar, though her love life, now featuring police detective Cheney Phillips, tends to be oddly remote. This 19th entry (after 2004's R Is for Ricochet) adopts a new convention: Millhone's customary intelligent and occasionally self-deprecating first-person reportage is interrupted by vignettes from the days surrounding the Fourth of July, 34 years earlier, when a hot-blooded young woman named Violet Sullivan disappeared. Violet's daughter, Daisy, who was seven at the time, hires Millhone to discover her mother's true fate. Violet had toyed with every man in town at one time or another, so there's no shortage of scandalous secrets and possible suspects. Constant revelations concerning several absorbing characters allow a terrific tension to build.
Brandy W. reviewed S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone, Bk 19) (Abridged Audio CD) on + 15 more book reviews
Fans of the Kinsey Milhone series will enjoy this rendition by Judy Kaye.
Joyce C. (Cageme) reviewed S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone, Bk 19) (Abridged Audio CD) on + 258 more book reviews
"S" is for Slow Start.. but worth the time. This is one mystery that you will probably need to listen to twice. The ending is a Surprise and in order to fully get it... you will be compelled to replay the first two CD's to clarify the Who's Who and the When and Why. The mystery has too many suspects but not enough concentration on the main characters.. at least not enough time for me to learn enough about them to develop any emotional affection or the time to really care about any one. The last of the five CDs does indeed escalate the plot into an exciting climax when the heroic Kinsey is confronted by our Mysterious villian. Thank Heaven for that. I forgive you Sue Grafton, just don't do it again.
