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Sue Grafton - Kinsey Millhone / Alphabet series (1982 - ?)

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Sabbie:

--- Quote from: "kikyo" ---I've read a few of these. They are like "snack" books - they are fun and entertaining and I can read one in a day.

Also, the books describe areas in Central/Southern CA that I know pretty well, so I like reading to recognize the settings.

It seems like one of those series that is so reader-friendly because you could either read the whole thing in order and probably be rewarded with a deeper context of the main character, or you could just read some of them or read out of order and still feel like you are not missing much.
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Oh that's a good thing, because I was thinking about reading just one of them, but I was not sure how annoying that would be without having read the rest of them.

roger:

--- Quote from: "Sabbie" ---
--- Quote from: "kikyo" ---I've read a few of these. They are like "snack" books - they are fun and entertaining and I can read one in a day.

Also, the books describe areas in Central/Southern CA that I know pretty well, so I like reading to recognize the settings.

It seems like one of those series that is so reader-friendly because you could either read the whole thing in order and probably be rewarded with a deeper context of the main character, or you could just read some of them or read out of order and still feel like you are not missing much.
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Oh that's a good thing, because I was thinking about reading just one of them, but I was not sure how annoying that would be without having read the rest of them.
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There is an overall development of characters and story, but each stands alone well.  This is truer of the earlier ones than the later.  T seemed to expect the reader to know a lot about the peripheral characters like Henry and his brothers.

KarenX:
Someone gave me "I Is for Innocent" on (abridged--ick) audiobook. I remember nothing about it except some business with a door peephole and driveway gravel. I don't really like any books in which the same character appears, especially if it's a wisecracking female detective. The books seem to require--as stated above--more than one book for real character development and they read like watching TV to me.

Now, don't get me wrong. I like TV. But I'd rather just watch it.

I think maybe the book being abridged made it terrible. It seemed at the end that there was no real way for a reader to have solved the crime and that you just had to take the detective's word for it that there was enough information available to come to that conclusion. I hope I didn't spoil the book for anyone by saying that the crime was in fact solved.

Swagomatic:
I've read "R is for Ricochet" and "S is for Silence,"  I enjoyed both of them.  Definitely not heavy literature, but Sue Grafton writes a decent story.

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