P Is For Peril: Summary and book reviews of P Is For Peril by Sue Grafton, plus links to an excerpt from P Is For Peril and a biography of Sue Grafton.
P Is For Peril
by Sue Grafton
Hardcover: Jun 2001,
304 pages.
Paperback: Jun 2002,
384 pages.
She's every lover's feisty girlfriend. She's every father's courageous daughter.
She's every woman's tough, vulnerable, and spirited alter ego.
She's Kinsey Millhone, familiar to millions of readers around the globe, and she's back in full stride in P is for Peril, her latest venture into the darker side of the human soul. Mordant, mocking, and deceptively low-key, hers is a voice we know we can trust, from a character we've come to love.
Through fifteen novels, Sue Grafton has gone from strength to strength, never writing the same book twice. So it's no surprise that she has taken on new territory in her sixteenth, this time entering the world of noir. It's a world cast in shades of black amid shafts of steel and silver, a shadow land in which the mysterious disappearance of a prominent physician leads Kinsey into a danger-filled maze of duplicity and double-dealing as she taps into the intricacies of a cunning Medicare fraud.
P is for Peril: the novel in which Millhone stakes her life on a thin thread of intuition because the facts glint elusively out of reach and only guesses offer any shot at the truth.
"Unlike many detective series, Grafton's seems only to get better each time out," wrote Entertainment Weekly, and P is for Peril is a case in point. Pushing herself, reaching further with each new book, Sue Grafton delivers every time.
BOOK REVIEWS
Media Reviews
Booklist
As always, Grafton gives us a truly complex heroine, marvelous depictions of Southern California architecture and interiors, and a writing style that can make a weed path interesting.
Library Journal
In her 15th alphabetical mystery, Grafton deserves an A for maintaining her series's high standard of excellence.... As usual, Grafton mixes an intriguing plot, well-developed characters, and humor into an entertaining summer read.
Kirkus Reviews
After twenty years updating the private-eye tradition, Grafton shows she can spin a classic yarn with all the breadth of her masters, and a sharper eye for detail than any of them.
Recent Reader Reviews
Rated of 5
by DoctorJ Anica and Crystal A previous reader is correct: When Kinsey first meets Anica, she's fresh from a shower, and Crystal is just then showering. Add that Anica works at an all-girls school (admittedly equivocal), and Crystal is insistent on Leila spending the night at... Read More
Rated of 5
by Shauna Dissatisfying I measure a good mystery by a good ending and this one had NONE! Grafton is a great writer, but not always on her game as far as a storyteller. This book left me nothing but aggravated. My favorite is still F is for Fugitive.
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