Book of the Week: V is for Vengeance

V is for Vengeance, the 22nd book in Sue Grafton's alphabet series of mysteries, is well worth reading.

This book again features heroine Kinsey Millhone as a private detective, who enjoys poking into other people's business. The story starts with Millhone witnessing two women shoplifting in an upscale department store. True to form, Kinsey reports the crime and goes after one of the perpetrators.

For her efforts, she is nearlyrun down in the parking garage of the store when one of the two women escapes. When the women arrested for the crime turns up dead from a supposed suicide one week later, her fiance hires Millhone to investigate.

What follows is a complicated story of love, betrayal, greed and murder, filled with interesting characters told from severalpoints of view, including Millhone's.

This book is a definite “don't miss” for Grafton fans but could be read as a stand-alone novel as well.

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