Sue Grafton delivers an intensely gripping mystery based on an actual unsolved murder in this #1 New York Times bestseller featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone.She was a “Jane Doe,” an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California’s Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff’s Department, but the detectives had little to go … detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved…
That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body are nearing the end of their careers in law enforcement—and they want one last shot at the case. Old and ill, they need someone to help with their legwork and they turn to Kinsey Millhone.
Kinsey is intrigued by the cold case and agrees to take the job. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe’s real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.
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I love Sue Grafton books I read all of them
I didn’t like this as much as I did her earlier books but it kept my interest and the plot was good. My main criticism is I guess that she goes into too much details about how people look and dress. Not that descriptions aren’t needed but I think in this case she overdid it a little.
I am trying to read the series.
A well written novel showing this terrific novelist at her peak. Too badnshe missed her target by one book but this book is right on target.
GOOD READ — A LITTLE DISJOINTED
Alphabet books always a good read that has the hook that keeps you reading to find out who the bad guy is.. Like the character development. Interesting to read & remember how it was to function before all the modern technology.
Good mystery. It’s a very fast read, exactly what you’d expect from Sue Grafton. Her characters are always interesting and slightly flawed, like people you’d actually know.
All of the Grafton’s Millhone books are good. Love the characters are fun and the plots good. The test of mysteries for me is if I can sleep at night after reading. These work for me.
Fast paced
I have always enjoyed the writings of Sue Grafton
I love reading Kinsey’s stories. You keep the suspense building and seem so real.
I enjoy this whole series. The main character is engaging, and the plots keep moving along.
Very slow. Disappointing ending.
Fans of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone series are in for another treat here in “Q is for Quarry.” Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has been asked to help out a couple of detectives who are going back to an 18-year-old cold case in order to keep their minds off their health problems. It seems like a hopeless case–but sometimes digging around can shake up things you’d never expect to find.
Keeping things interesting in a long-running series like this is always a challenge. I will confess that I took a break from the series for a decade or so in order to let it refresh for me. Now that I’m going back to the latter books, I’m enjoying it tremendously once again, and appreciating what a master Grafton is at plotting, pacing, and characterization.
This, like the other Kinsey Millhone books, is deceptive, in that it seems like the plot is moving slowly and there’s a lot going on that isn’t necessarily relevant. Part of the charm of the series is the meandering pace, full of Kinsey’s daily routine and back story, and the gradual unfolding of the complex mystery. The Kinsey Millhone books aren’t as long and complicated as the Robert Galbraith books, but they are a bit more satisfyingly chewy than your run-of-the-mill mystery book.
“Q in for Quarry” has a particularly complex mystery, one that is based on a real-life cold case. In moments it’s almost creepily tense in between the scenes of small-town California life. If this is your first introduction to the Millhone series, it’s a good one, if more complex than the first few books in the series. Go ahead and jump in, but you may want to then go and read “A is for Alibi,” which is still rightfully a classic.
Love Sue Grafton’s books.
felt it was outdated with the electronic equipment that was used to communicate
Typical but enjoyable Grafton. The comparison to a real life situation in the epilogue was interesting.
Too hard keeping up with all the people
True to Grafton this was a really well written story and kept you interested and turning the pages until the end.
What can I say? Sue Grafton books are an instant buy!