Or is it? What if lessons learned from your ex back then can save the life of someone today? In the new book “X” by Sue Grafton, recovered memorabilia leads to an eXtra disturbing discovery. That’s all in the past now, and best that it stay that way. You don’t even like to think about them, in fact, and you rarely discuss them. It is a sure bet her legion of fans will want her to move on to using numbers to title her next series of books.The months spent with your ex are better forgotten. Grafton has two letters left in the alphabet.
Her sleuthing is old school, and wonderfully written. Grafton captures the pre-computer and cell phone area perfectly. "X," like all the books in the Kinsey Millhone series, is set in the late 1980s. The two cases keep Kinsey moving around California, and they keep the reader on pins and needles about what will happen next. It also unearths a stalker, one who not only sets his sights on Kinsey's friend, but on Kinsey herself. The search uncovers a cache of religious items hidden in the bottom of a box. In the second case, Kinsey is helping an old friend wrap up her late husband's business affairs. She soon finds out the woman is not the person she presented herself to be, which sends Kinsey on the hunt for her fraudulent employer and the reasons behind her deception. The job seems easy enough, until Kinsey learns the woman paid her with marked $100 bills, which earns Kinsey a visit from the police. In the first case, Kinsey is hired by a woman to find her felon son, recently released from prison. In the 24th installment of the series, private detective Kinsey Millhone finds herself facing two cases that keep her busy from the word go. In "X," Grafton proves that she is at the top of her game. It's been 33 years since author Sue Grafton started her alphabet series.
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