V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series Book 22)

I have read all of the Kinsey Millhone alphabet series from A onwards, I highly recommend anyone read them all from the beginning, I adore Kinsey, I like to think I'm her in a different life! Kinsey is a private detective who lives next door to Henry her landlord who is 80something, he makes an abbreviated appearance in the book and I missed him as much as Kinsey did. She generally does boring PI work but every so often gets entangled in a bigger mess, the bigger mess here involves loan sharks and organised crime and like the last book U is not only told from Kinseys viewpoint this time 2 others Dante and Nora. For me this was the biggest failing so far although an excellent read and I charged through it, I really missed Kinsey, I want to read about Kinsey after all I have invested in 20 odd books about her so far. In the end its a very well written intertwining story that is clever and works, if you had not previously read any of the alphabet series you probably wouldn't notice her abscence, but I think as a Kinsey fan you think differently. Sue Grafton is in her 70s and to be creating these works is an amazing achievement, can't wait for W!

I've read all of Sue Grafton's ABC Kinsey stories and I really like them. Kinsey Millhone is one of the most believable heroines: she's not a cardboard character to me. I feel that I might meet her if I went to California in 1980!V for Vengeance is written from a different perspective in that many of the chapters revolve around what are seemingly disparate characters and a lot of the intrigue for the reader is working out how Grafton is going to weave them together. Interspersed between the chapters featuring the main protagonists are the traditional first person chapters as written by Kinsey: then,for the first time, in one chapter we also see Kinsey from another character's point of view as she is referred to in the third person. I like the fact that Sue Grafton sticks to the 1980s settings so there no hi-tech gadgetry and mobile phones.Hopefully Sue Grafton will carry on writing and reach Z!

An enjoyable read, just like all the others in the series. Nothing wonderful but great for reading in bed before sleep.

This is the latest in the alphabet series from Sue Grafton and written to her usual high standard. Fans of the series will not be disappointed and Kinseys life as a detective continues. A bit disturbing just how many times this woman can be beaten up and shot and still survive and apparently not become any more cautious.I really like Sues books, they aren't a difficult or complex read but are written in a format which I don't find too simple either. (Unlike James Pattersons ridiculously short chapters!) The only downside I will say about reading the alphabet books is the infrequency of publication means that I have so far started at A again twice before reading the latest release. Still I guess that means they are a good investment! For those people who haven't read any Grafton you can read them out of sequence as individual books, they are self contained stories - but why would you?

I'm quite surprised at the negative reviews for this book. I've read them all and have to say that I think this is the best SG has written. It's true that we get less "Kinsey time", but given that all of the other 20 odd books have immersed us pretty deeply in her life it doesn't feel like we're missing anything. I did like the two other characters whose POV we get for half the book, and I loved the fact that for the first time ever we get to (very, very briefly) see Kinsey through someone else's eyes (and yes, apparently it DOES look like she cuts her hair herself, so she's not just being modest when she says it's a mess!)I loved this and finished it virtually in one sitting. Now, I can't wait for W - can't imagine what it'll stand for.

Dear oh dear. My jaw hit the floor at the customary sign-off by Kinsey in this book because the author spelt her surname wrong !! Yep, 22 books in and this happened. Easily knocked it a star down for me and if this had been letter A in the series I'd have finished with it. I'm still reeling. I find it unforgivable, actually.Once again there are loads of differing editions/publishers/covers and you're telling me NOT ONE spotted that oversight ???? Shocking.....And all of a sudden the stories are subtitled The Fethering Mysteries-since when ? And what's THAT in reference to ??Once again it's full of hyphen and spacing errors throughout as well which I've complained about since I started reading the series in digital format. Each one on the Kindle has been the same. Chan-ning/she'dbeback/Hollo-way/sherealized/Phil-lip's/Pin-ky's...It's sloppy and I'd have expected better considering I've now paid for 22 of these stories, too. There were of course apostrophe mistakes as well. Plus mention of an alcohol-detecting flashlight which I'd never heard of so Googled. But they don't seem to have been in existence in the 80s-another oversight.This has taken me a week to plough through...I got bogged down with it at the beginning when we had all this superfluous card-playing "stuff" to wade through. It really didn't warrant as much detail as it had and I could feel my interest waning. Made it hard to pick it up again.I still like Kinsey a great deal but I'm none too impressed with Sue Grafton right now.

I'm a huge Sue Grafton/Kinsey fan. I don't know whether it's just me but other reviewers just don't seem to appreciate the different settings that Sue continues to place her heroine in. But this one was not just a change of setting but also a change of style. Sue Grafton manages it superbly- all the things the writing schools tell you not to do- switching to first person for several people - yet she does it with consummate skill resulting in a novel which is definitely Kinsey but no longer the introverted Kinsey at the centre but more a dominant player in a wider stage. Great stuff Sue Grafton- very readable - but maybe once is enough.

Le délai de livraison a été un peu long pour un colis venant des Pays-bas.

How often can I repeate this: Such a good writer! Evolving great caracters in an intrecate story that devolpes with rythm and captivates

Super. Like all Kinsey Millhone books by Sue Grafton -- only Y & Z left in this series !!!!!!

Sehr schönes Buch, super Einband, tolle Gestaltung. Ich sammle die Reihe von Grafton, es fehlen nur noch die drei letzten.

That being said, I found that V is for Vengeance was slow paced.Too many characters, not enough Kinsey:Once in a while, in the alphabet novels we're lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Kinsey's past or find Kinsey forging a significant bond with someone. This is not one of those novels. The many characters in this book make it hard to follow at the start and make you wonder how they're all related to each other. While Sue went in depth with these characters I thought that there wasn't enough Kinsey. However we find a very introspective Kinsey in this book and the quotes are brilliant like the one below:"Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone."All in all even though V is for Vengeance is slow paced, it's still a very good read. I just wish there would have been more Kinsey in it.I can't wait to read the next book in the series. Having read all the books in the series it's hard to believe there's only 4 books left before the end.