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A is for Alibi by: Sue Grafton List Price: £8.99 Price: £1.70 You Save: £7.29 (81%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio Cassette Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780333908808 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0333908805 Label: Macmillan Audio Books Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio Books Number Of Items: 2 Publication Date: April 12, 2002 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Books Studio: Macmillan Audio Books Sales Rank: 705185 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A good start to the seriesSue Grafton's Alphabet series has been going for about 25 years now (I think 'T is for Trespass' has just been released) and I had been bought the A-J boxset for Christmas, so thought I'd start at the beginning with 'A is for Alibi'. The story introduces the lead character, Kinsey Millhone. 32 years old, twice divorced and a private investigator. Kinsey is approached by a woman who has been wrongfully imprisoned for 8 years after being charged as guilty for the murder of her husband, a cheating, divorce lawyer who it seems everybody wanted dead. Kinsey is hired to find the truth behind his murder and also comes across another murder of a young woman who knew the victim and died in exactly the same way. The plot is very ... Read More: Rating: - Give Grafton a go!I LOVE Kinsey Millhone. Unlike other female crime busters she isnt full of her own self importance, and she's more than just a little bit flawed which makes her far more believable and identifiable. Each book is a different story instead of the same old same old rehashed again and again. These arent the gore fest that Cornwell or Reichs gives us but a gentler and far easier read, they dont get confusing and are far more appealing to me, they arent bogged down with pages and pages of technical bla bla bla that bores me so, she does explain things in detail but I'm right there with Kinsey every step of the way. Dont give up on Grafton if this is your first book and you werent hooked, B for Burglar was a great read, I'm about halfway through the series ... Read More: Rating: - Entertaining enoughThis was the first of Sue Graftons series that I read (having been bought the series A to M in a boxed set for christmas I obviously started at the beginning) Found this book to be very readable, enough twists and turns to keep me wondering - though have to agree with a previous comment it took me a while to get to grips with who the characters were. The ending managed to keep me up reading into the small hours and that in itself makes it worthy of a recommendation to others. Not the best I've read, but definately not the worst! Rating:  - Fairly mediocreHaving collected up a number of these books at various 2nd hand sales, I thought it was time I read the first in the series. It was disappointing, I was hoping for a more sassy character like Stephanie Plum in the Janet Evanovich books and the story was rather formulaic. Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator, hired to look into the murder of Laurence Fife eight years previously. His wife Nikki has served her time for the murder and now wants to prove her innocence. A rather formulaic investigation follows, involving a lot of driving around America and too much route detailing. Characters were frequently skimmed over so that the reader had trouble recalling who people were and the final denouement suddenly popped into Kinsey's ... Read More: Rating: - A is for... AverageI finally decided to start the alphabet series after having A is for Alibi sitting on my shelf since the beginning of this year. I did enjoy this book and I really liked the character of Kinsey Millhone. However I feel I was expecting too much from this and was therefore slightly dissapointed. I gave this book 3 stars as I did enjoy it, but I was not blown away. I shall eventually get around to continue reading the alphabet series, but there are alot more books on my shelf that I plan to read first. |
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