U is for Undertow

This was the best of all her books so far. It was so entertaining, I could hardly wait to get back to it. Even in all the back and forth in the years, she never missed a beat. I have read all the books to U. I’m eagerly waiting to see what she has in her last few books.

As always, a great read! And I still have 4 more to look forward to reading before I start with A, again. RIP, Sue. Kinsey lives on.

One of the best of the series!

Grafton was able to stir my emotions a few times and mostly at the end of the book, but the story covers various people and decades and the set-up and exposition are difficult to follow unless you have long periods of time to read it. I tend to read at night one chapter. This isn't a book for that.

The best one so far!

Overall I enjoy Grafton's Kinsey Millhone books but some were a little less exciting & repetitive... NOT U! Loved this book! If you put the alphabet series down to take a break after a few slow ones, pick it back up you'll be pleased!

Sue Grafton and Charles Dickens are my favorite authors, Sue for the 20th Century (mine), and Charles for the 19th (hardly a man is now alive...) U(ndertow) may be her BEST BOOK, or maybe that's what I'll say about each, second time around.

I've made my way through the rest of the series and found this book the weakest to date. The author appears to have gotten a bit bored with her own series and so has now introduced new devices to keep herself interested (or so it seems). This largely includes skipping back and forth in time and from various characters' points of view. For the first time, I found myself skimming whole paragraphs of on of Ms. Grafton's books due to my own boredom with the tangential, wordy "historic" detail entirely irrelevant to either the plot or an understanding of the characters. There were multiple inconsistencies (including a very central one pertaining to the timing of a the witnessing of a key element if the crime) which are never explained or resolved (did he see what he saw? If so, when? How does this square with other information?). The book did NOT really explore the issue of false memories except in a tangential plot point that was awkward. It did not tie together the prior elements of an event of "false memory" with current issues except in a rather pasted-on and lumbering manner. Very disappointing.

I never get tired of Kinsey. Thanks, Sue!

This was the best of all the Alphabet Mysteries! Kinsey has developed and so has the author.