Sue Grafton Collection

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    poppy_chip Sinh viên năm IV

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    Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008
    Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi
    Bài gởi: 361
    Xin cảm ơn: 149
    Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài
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    [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"][​IMG] Kinsey Millhone Series (cont.)
    [HR][/HR]"T" Is for Trespass (2007)


    In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton’s T is for Trespass is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the voice of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs. The true horror of the novel builds with excruciating tension as the reader foresees the awfulness that lies ahead. The suspense lies in whether Millhone will realize what is happening in time to intervene.

    Though set in the late eighties, T is for Trespass could not be more topical: identity theft; elder abuse; betrayal of trust; the breakdown in the institutions charged with caring for the weak and the dependent. It reveals a terrifying but all-too-real rip in the social fabric.

    Once again, Grafton opens up new territory with startling results.
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    poppy_chip Sinh viên năm IV

    U Is for Undertow - Sue Grafton

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    Tham gia ngày: Jun 2008
    Bài gởi: 828
    Xin cảm ơn: 9
    Được cảm ơn 16,467 lần trong 820 bài


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    U Is for Undertow
    (Book 21 in the Kinsey Millhone series)
    (2009)

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    It's April, 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone's thirty-eighth birthday, and she's alone in her office doing paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. He has a preppy air about him and looks as if he'd be carded if he tried to buy booze, but Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout. Twenty-one years earlier, a four-year-old girl disappeared. A recent reference to her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinsey's help in locating the child's remains and finding the men who killed her. It's a long shot but he's willing to pay cash up front, and Kinsey agrees to give him one day. As her investigation unfolds, she discovers Michael Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, he's the boy who cried wolf. Is his current story true or simply one more in a long line of fabrications?

    Grafton moves the narrative between the eighties and the sixties, changing points of view, building multiple subplots, and creating memorable characters. Gradually, we see how they all connect. But at the beating center of the novel is Kinsey Millhone, sharp-tongued, observant, a loner - 'a heroine,' said The New York Times Book Review, 'with foibles you can laugh at and faults you can forgive.'
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