T is for Trespass
Ratings6
Average rating3.2
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Ratings6
Average rating3.2
When her elderly neighbour Gus has an accident, Kinsey Millhone is relieved that his niece organizes a nurse for him. A background check on Solana Rojas doesn't turn up anything suspicious. But Kinsey's not convinced - especially when Gus seems to be getting worse under his nurse's tender care. Realizing that her neighbourly concern isn't going to get her past the front door, Kinsey turns to more unorthodox methods to step up her investigation. And gets far more than she bargained for. Not only is Solana not who she seems to be, but she's more than able to play Kinsey at her own game.
Series
25 primary booksKinsey Millhone is a 25-book series with 25 primary works first released in 1986 with contributions by Sue Grafton.
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I give up. I don't seem to be able to work up a good give a damn. I realize that the description says it starts slowly, and that part my impatience is lingering dissatisfaction from the previous volume in the series. Still, I need something a little quicker right now.
First thing I noted about this was “This Prologue's a bit heavy handed and overly dramatic . . . who knows? Maybe it'll be justified.” I still think it was a bit too much – but on the whole, it was justified.
This was a slow burn of a novel. Sure, the reader is introduced to the villain, Solana Rojas, right off the bat (thanks to third person narration focusing on her in chapters interspersed with Kinsey's narration), but Kinsey isn't even hired for anything regarding her until roughly 100 pages in. The whole setup for this book is so unlike Grafton. I liked this, and it bugged me at the same time. Mostly the former, though, I'm all for Grafton stretching herself.
There was a time where Rojas had the upper hand over Kinsey, and while we know in the end that Kinsey will win out, Grafton sure could've made things look a little more dire for Santa Teresa's hero. It was just a little too easy for Kinsey to convince others what was going on. In the end, that didn't make this less satisfying.
Grafton's never been a slouch, but in these last few books she's really upped her game – this is the best thing she's done. Her characters are better drawn, the plot's more intricate, Rojas was probably a little more evil than anyone that Kinsey's crossed paths with before. This is definitely the creepiest, most disturbing Grafton novel – haven't read much in the last couple of years that's as unnerving, really, when I stopped to think of it. Not as gory or violent as many in the genre (nowhere near that), but when you look at the trail of destruction that Rojas has left before she's stopped – she's unsettling in a way that your typical fictional serial killer isn't.
