Phil in SF hat "C" is for Corpse von Sue Grafton besprochen (Kinsey Millhone, #3)
Meh, it was ok.
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Shortly before I hit the road with 14 hours in the air (each way) to Lisbon, it occurred to me I would need more than one audiobook to cover the flights. By shortly, I mean about 5 minutes before I left for the airport. I vaguely remembered the Alphabet series. I wasn't expecting anything super great, but the story barely met that bar. I should have pulled something that I'd already put on my TBR.
Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California, modeled after Santa Barbara. Bobby Callahan hires her to investigate who tried to kill him months before in what appeared to be a car accident. Hitch is, Callahan has lost most of his memory in the crash. The crime is overly complicated, which is a thing that irritates me when it happens in crime fiction. But what really made me meh about this is that …
Shortly before I hit the road with 14 hours in the air (each way) to Lisbon, it occurred to me I would need more than one audiobook to cover the flights. By shortly, I mean about 5 minutes before I left for the airport. I vaguely remembered the Alphabet series. I wasn't expecting anything super great, but the story barely met that bar. I should have pulled something that I'd already put on my TBR.
Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California, modeled after Santa Barbara. Bobby Callahan hires her to investigate who tried to kill him months before in what appeared to be a car accident. Hitch is, Callahan has lost most of his memory in the crash. The crime is overly complicated, which is a thing that irritates me when it happens in crime fiction. But what really made me meh about this is that the relationship between Kinsey and Bobby is portrayed as deep and meaningful, but there's only about 4 meetings between the two before Callahan is actually knocked off. The characters and their relationships just feel so incredibly forced.