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Q IS FOR QUARRY
by Sue Grafton
G. P.Putnam's Sons, October 2002
385 pages
$26.95
ISBN: 0399149155


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It's always fun to revisit Kinsey. Q IS FOR QUARRY is one of the really good ones in the series.

This time she is hired by Lt. Dolan, on sick leave following a heart attack, to try and help his old friend, a retired cop from the sheriff's department who is going through the rigors of chemotherapy solve a "cold case" from eighteen years previously. I have always been partial to the reopening of old cases, especially when more work is done by detection than by the lab. DNA is a remarkable breakthrough, but the older style sleuthing is usually much more fun, at least for the reader.

Dolan and his sheriff friend, Stacy Oliphant were the ones who found the body. The three of them, are determined to find an identification of this Jane Doe, as well as discover her murderer. An engrossing work of detection which lays open some dark secrets of a small town.

Because the body was found on property owned by her maternal grandmother, Kinsey is once again in reluctant contact with her relatives. I find both Kinsey's reluctance to bond with her relatives yet certain yearnings for the comfort of family very realistic. The fact that she doesn't either rush into a relationship or completely cut off her cousins and aunts gives Kinsey an added dimension.

This is a book I didn't want to put down and I've been having a difficult time finding many books that fit the category. A really great entry in an always entertaining and deservedly popular series.

Reviewed by Doris Ann Norris, April 2003

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