Jack Q. (AlabamaJack) reviewed on 11/28/2006 + 170 more book reviews

S IS FOR SILENCE by Sue Grafton: S might also be for Surely you dont think I can find a suspect missing for nearly 35 years. The daughter of a dysfunctional mother was only three years old when her mother disappeared from a Fourth of July celebration. She has been haunted by the event ever since and finally hires Kinsey Millhone to find closure. The daughter has gown up to be whiny and annoying as well as desperate, and Millhone is not terribly enthusiastic about the case. She reluctantly agrees to give it her best shot for a week. The plot is complex, the characters are vividly but not necessarily sympathetically portrayed, and the ending is unexpected. Maybe we all should eat more of those ghastly combination sandwiches, augmented with Quarter Pounders and fries drenched with ketchup, if that is the key to Millhones lack of aging over the past nineteen years either that or she was a very precocious teenager back when all this started. Another great Grafton, if you like that sort of thing, which I do.

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