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Feb 28, 2013gloryb rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Nine short stories with Kinsey Millhone as the detective appear in half of this book. Some of these stories have been previously published in magazines, but they are not satisfying like her detective novels. They reminded me of the 5 minute mystery stories written for pre-teens I had bought for my child years ago. In Grafton's short stories, the crime, the clues, and the solution occur in a few pages. The focus is on how the crime is solved so additional characters she uses for "comic relief" in her novels are absent. There other half of the book also contains short stories, but these are about Kinsey's childhood which mirrored Grafton's own. Just not my cup of tea. Not a satisfying read.