V is for Vengeance

I didn't know there was a new Sue Grafton novel out until I saw it at the book store one day. Then I was number 346 on the waiting list at the library for quite some time and then right after Christmas it arrived. I had to finish the novel I was reading first, but then it was Kinsey time.

As with Grafton's most recent novels, this book presents both Kinsey's point of view and another character's, or two in this case. Kinsey is told in first person, while Nora and Dante are given the third-person treatment. Although I think this is the first novel where we meet Kinsey directly in someone else's chapter. The mystery centers around a mobster, his clients, his business and some bad timing. Although it wasn't much of a mystery, more of a procedural - Kinsey figuring out what was going on than actually solving a murder. The reader knows who did the crime, just not necessarily the motives. This isn't a bad thing because a good story sets you up to reach a destination in the way the author intended.

All in all this was a good addition to the Millhone canon. Now we have to wait two more years for W.