T is for Trespass (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) | Sue Grafton | ------T is for Twenty entertaining...

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	T is for Trespass (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) Sue Grafton Putnam Adult, 2007 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 194 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

------T is for Twenty entertaining Kinsey Millhone stories!------

Over the years I've read this entire series and some of the stories are more memorable than others, but all are good reading. Well, this book is a milestone for Sue Grafton and is probably one of the best in the series! It's a little different from most of her other books which shows me that Ms. Grafton is growing as a writer and wanted to pursue a topic that can and will concern many of us at some point in the lives of our relatives, friends, or possibly ourselves.

This story tackles the crime of abuse that can happen to elderly people who have no one to care for them and end up having a paid professional care giver in their home. In this story, Gus (Kinsey's neighbor) needs help and has no relatives who live close to his home in California. His niece, Melanie Oberlin visits and does her best in finding Solana Rojas, a seemingly reliable nurse to take care of Gus. Melanie asks Kinsey who is a private investigator to do a background check on Solana. All looks good initially and her former co-workers and supervisor speak well of her. Solana gets the job! After the niece returns to the East coast, some of the neighbors try to look in on Gus, but his two closest neighbors, Henry and Kinsey feel that Solana is not what she portrays herself to be.

T IS FOR TRESPASS is scary and kept me reading long after I should have been asleep at night. Thanks to Sue Grafton for this story and making us all aware of this type of predator.

Judith J. Miller

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Sue grafton never disappoints. this book was terrific, kept me on my toes, enjoyed it immensely. She is right up there on top of the list of my favorites, along with James Lee Burke and Michael Connolly.

Sue Grafton at her best!

This was a joy to read. Better than the last couple of books written. In fact, I think it is the best one of the series so far. This one would make an exciting and engaging movie!

A solid Millhone installment with a bit of a strange ending for me...

It seems like it's been forever since I last read a Sue Grafton novel. I guess I'm getting spoiled with Nora Roberts' frequent In Death series. So once again I pick up the life of PI Kinsey Millhone in T is for Trespass. This is an interesting mix of Kinsey being Kinsey, as well as a look at identity theft and elder abuse.

One of Millhone's elderly neighbors falls in his home and eventually attracts the attention of her and Henry during a walk. After getting him to a hospital, she attempts to run down some living relative in order to get someone to take care of him during the rehab process. But the nearest relative is a niece on the east coast, and she really can't be bothered to help out much. Kinsey finally convinces her to fly out, take responsibility for the situation, and find someone. Kinsey does a quick background check on the nurse who applies, and all seems well for the first few days. But as time passes, the neighbor continues to deteriorate physically, and the nurse is cutting him off from all outside contact. Kinsey sees that the nurse is taking advantage of the situation to slowly collect everything of value that he owns. She tries to intervene, but the nurse is more than a match for Kinsey, and is able to spin the story such that Kinsey comes out the "bad guy". Once it's determined that the nurse may not be who she appears to be, it becomes a race to see if Kinsey and Henry can rescue the neighbor without ending up in jail (or before he's killed off).

That main plotline works pretty well, as you can see how someone in a caretaker role can take advantage of the very people they are hired to protect. The identity theft angle is also very plausible, and it doesn't even have to be a high-tech crime to be effective. The subplot involving an investigation of accident fraud was also interesting, but the ending angle on that was somewhat strange and unexpected. It didn't really sync with the rest of the story, in my opinion.

Overall, it's an enjoyable read, and Grafton fans will be happy that she's finally back with the next installment. If you're new to the series, you'll be missing some of the character background, but not nearly as bad as some of the episodes you could start with (if you don't feel up to going back to A is for Alibi).

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