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    G Is for Gumshoe

    Written by Sue Grafton

    Narrated by Judy Kaye

    3.5/5

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    A Kinsey Millhone mystery. . .

    Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list. It's the last that convinces Kinsey even she can't handle whoever's been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey's body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it's over, she'll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . .


    From the Compact Disc edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 25, 2005
    ISBN9780739334003
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    G Is for Gumshoe
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    Sue Grafton

    Sue Grafton was one of the most popular female writers, both in the UK and in the US. Born in Kentucky in 1940, she began her career as a TV scriptwriter before Kinsey Millhone and the 'alphabet' series took off. Two of the novels B is for Burglar and C is for Corpse won the first Anthony Awards for Best Novel. Sue lived and wrote in Montecito, California and Louisville, Kentucky.

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    Reviews for G Is for Gumshoe

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    • 4/5
      One of the main reasons I really enjoyed this book is watching Kinsey sense something about a case and not give up until she figures it all out. I also liked the incorporation of two separate storylines with moments of merging. Sue Grafton did an excellent job of incorporating the hitman story into the Agnes Grey story without either of them overwhelming the whole book. Both storylines are engaging and immediately grabbed my interest. I was anxiously waiting to see what came next and Grafton excels at building the suspense in this one.

      I think I’m half in love with Henry Pitts just as Kinsey is. His devotion and caring for her is so genuine and heartfelt. I truly think he is someone she can completely be herself with and someone who loves her no matter what.

      In G is for Gumshoe, we get our first glimpse of Kinsey working with a partner and I think I prefer Kinsey on her. I tried to like the Dietz character but he seemed to have a very dark side we only got a glimpse of and I didn’t buy him as a romantic interest for Kinsey at all.

      Judy Kaye as usual is the only voice of series there needs to be. I have no words for how well she is as a narrator.
    • 4/5
      BOTTOM-LINE:Decent book, worth celebrating her birthday..PLOT OR PREMISE:Happy 33rd Birthday to Kinsey! Her apartment is ready, she gets hired to go check on someone's mom, and she's on a hit list..WHAT I LIKED:As always, Grafton adds some local colour wherever Kinsey goes -- Kinsey gets to a small trailer area, and the directions are to go on down to a corner where there's a Rusted-Out Chevy and take the road next to it called, you guessed it, Rusted-Out Chevy Road. It is such a perfect example to set a mood for the place. More importantly though, Dietz is in the story, hired to protect her from the cheap hitman chasing her. And the book is rounded out by a cold case of a woman with signs of Alzheimer's who is trying to hide a secret..WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE:Dietz is so hard-core professional with the security side, it feels almost like the Plum series where Ranger is awesome and Plum is a cupcake. It reduces Kinsey at times to passive acceptance and direction, and it doesn't fit well with most of her character..DISCLOSURE:I received no compensation, not even a free copy, in exchange for this review. I am not personal friends with the author, nor do I follow her on social media.
    • 5/5
      As always, a great read. Never a dull moment. Her books could be read in one seating if one had the time. I never tire of Kinsey Millhone, the main character in Sue Grafton's books. She is an independent young woman, self-employed, doing what she loves to do and is good at it. As a private investigator, she is a minority in her field. If you enjoy. suspense, this is book and series for you.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book in the series. Two stories in one plus Kinsey getting romantically involved with someone other than the married cop?!? First all, there's a price on Kinsey's head regarding a prisoner who she put in prison. Probably the only time she irked me in the book... stupid to go out and get shot at without her bodyguard. The second was finding a woman's mother that actually turned into a really cool murder mystery. Definitely a page turner and was definitely surprised with the whole Irene/Agnes story. Looking forward to reading H.
    • 4/5
      I may create a Bad Cozy bingo game - I would have lost by a lot on this book :) I thought I had it figured out about half way through - I'm quite pleased I was wrong.

      I do really get through unabridged audiobooks this quickly. As long as my workplace keeps paying me to spend hours doing brainless tasks a computer could do in seconds, I'll keep doing a whole lot of reading with my ears :)
    • 4/5
      A fun mystery!
    • 3/5
      A fun series.
    • 4/5
      A step up from F is for Fugitive. Instead of Kinsey being in mortal peril only in the last chapter, she's in peril for the entire book, as someone has hired a discount hitman ($1500) to kill her. So for most of the book she has a bodyguard as a partner, which adds a nice dynamic, without throwing everything off-balance. His attention to detail in security matches her attention to detail on almost everything else. Her primary case appears to have nothing to do with murder. It's just finding and bringing home a mother lapsing into dementia for a daughter who has aged far beyond her 47 years. The pleasure in even the weakest Milhone mysteries is the constant stream of little things noticed, along with Kinsey's humanity. She's always struggled around illness, and here she has to get up close to it.Recommended. I wouldn't advise it as a first Milhone mystery, but third or fourth would be fine.
    • 4/5
      In G is for Gumshoe, Kinsey finds herself going after a Bronte-colored mystery, while ducking a hi man (and his young son) when she finds herself on a convict's blame-list. I like Dietz, but not everything in this mystery flows as naturally as other books (specifically where Grafton forces the Bronte allusions). Still enjoyable overall.
    • 5/5
      I guess I am slow-motion binge-reading Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series. I don't allow myself to read another in the series until I have reviewed it and any other books I have read since finishing the previous one. G is for Gumshoe won the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 1991, so I had high hopes for the title. It lived up to that award, in my opinion. After all, what is not to like? An efficient hitman who has kidnapped his son and is taking the boy along on the job. A rambling mother who has a secret. A handsome, sexy bodyguard. And Kinsey herself, on the search for the truth about the rambling mother, whilst avoiding the hitman and enlisting the help of the sexy bodyguard. Being Grafton is a remarkable storyteller, the book is a great read.While the mystery can be read as a standalone book, it is best read in order of publication. So start with "A" and catch up! This book is highly recommended for fans of PI mysteries with a hint of cozy.
    • 3/5
      I still really enjoy Kinsey, but the mystery in this one is a little bit contrived and I didn't think the book was as well-written as some others in the series. And some of Kinsey's tics -- her one nice dress, her eating habits, her fondness for Henry -- are beginning to seem repetitive, as if Grafton just copied some paragraphs from previous books and pasted them into this one.
    • 3/5
      Well, I'd definitely like to see more Dietz. I feel like F & G have been much more intriguing than the previous novels.
    • 4/5
      Kinsey is to locate a elderly woman whom her daughter hasn't heard from in six months, but this one has the twist that Kinsey has a hitman after her which seem to make it that much more interesting. Being the smart person she is after getting ran off the road she hires a bodyguard Robert Dietz to protect her. I love the chemistry of the two characters how they solve the mystery that surrounds the missing women and trying to avoid being killed by the assassin.
    • 4/5
      Another good installment in the Kinsey Millhone series. The mystery in this one was better than most of the others I have read. It was intriguing reading on to see the two mysteries merge in Kinsey's life. The ending was a tad predictable, but it was still worth reading just for fun's sake.
    • 4/5
      I have not followed this series steadily, but of the ones I have read (A, C and now G), I like this the best. all the books contain some humor and some grim bits, but in this one the proportion of humor to grim bits is higher. It involves to separate plots which only come together briefly at the climax. One involves a hitman who has been hired to kill the detective KInsey Millhone by another criminal she had helped capture, and the other involves an elderly and eccentric woman whose daughter hires Kinsey to find her. Kinsey finds her fairly promptly, but then she vanishes again and reappears only to die, so Kinsey has to find her killer. This involves some really solid investigation in old news reports and birth records, which Kinsey tackles with enthusiasm. It ultimately leads to a showdown in which one villain conveniently kills the other before being killed himself. That is the grim bit, but it could be worse. One loose end -- when Kinsey's life is threatened, she is send a bodyguard (with whom she becomes romantically involved) and he is supposed to identify himself with the password "dill pickle" but he never does --through most of the book I was wondering if he would turn out to be an imposter ,but he didn't.
    • 4/5
      G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton is a 1997, (originally published in 1990), Ballantine Books publication. In January of this year, (2016), I vowed to get caught all the way up on this series by the end of the year. Naturally, I got side tracked, but I’m still determined to achieve my goal. So, here are my thoughts on the seventh installment of this popular and long-running series. Kinsey is hired by a frail, sickly women to check on her mother because she has not heard from her in a while. Sounds like a simple enough task, and it is, at first. The old woman is found, placed in a facility, but up and disappears yet again, only this time she’s not so lucky. In the meantime, Kinsey is informed she could be the target of an assassin she helped put away, requiring her to have a bodyguard, one she becomes quite close before all is said and done. This chapter in the series seemed super short for some reason. I read it in under an hour, but not because it was impossible to put down. There was a lot of action, some romance, but the case was a little murky and I had to read the last few chapters twice in order to make sure I had understood it right. The assassin on Kinsey’s trail proved to be the more exciting part of the book and the irony of it made this story as hardboiled as any 1940’s detective story. This side story is the reason it upped my star rating, otherwise this one would have fallen rather flat. Overall this one gets a 3.5 rounded to 4 Onward to H is Homicide
    • 4/5
      Audiobook. Another good, quick story about Kinsey. It's a pleasure to listen to while I am walking with my dog
    • 3/5
      Listened to audio edition narrated my Mary Peiffer. I'm still enjoying this series. In this one, Kinsey encounters a new romantic entanglement and has a hit taken out on her upping the danger almost right from the start. I also liked the puzzle of unraveling the actual case she was working on, although I thought they got lucky in their research methods.
    • 4/5
      The book does what it's meant to: easy and pleasurable to read, no need to get intellectually wrapped up. If you don't know who the Bronte sisters are, it's OK, she tells you. I enjoyed it. I don't envy Kinsey her love life, though.
    • 4/5
      There are some devices in this one. A contract killer has it in for Kinsey, and a big tough bodyguard is brought on the scene to keep her safe. (There needs to be a special tag for stories with female detectives with big tough bodyguards.). Then we have the character who talks gibberish that the detective has to translate. But I have to admit to enjoying that device when it turns up, and solving the not-so-cold case that the gibberish refers to ends up being a lot of fun. The bodyguard subplot goes about as expected, but all the building blocks are put together neatly into a good story.
    • 5/5
      OK, so this is the book that I thought had that big, huge plot device that turned out to be in "E". Of course, this one has its own so I guess it make sense that I got them confused.This is definitely my favorite book of the first half of the series. There's a lot of personal stuff going on, and the mystery itself is surprisingly light on characters but still very captivating.
    • 3/5
      Grafton's 7th Millhone mystery divides it's time between two plots. Kinsey made it on someone's hit list and is being hunted by hired killers. She hires another PI, Robert Dietz to act as a body guard. The second plot focuses on a missing person assignment Kinsey has accepted. What starts off as a simple job quickly becomes complicated by murder. The book isn't my favorite in the series, but unlike the others, it features the sharp-tongued detective having to ask someone for help. It's not often we see her in such a vulnerable position. It's a fun light read that won't be hard to get through.
    • 4/5
      Kinsey is sent to the Mojave Desert by a client to find her missing mother. At the same time a convict with a grudge takes out a contract on Kinsey and she gets a bodyguard. This was an interesting read, but the series is beginning to get a bit too formulaic for me.
    • 5/5
      I thought this was a great addition to the series. The strange tale of a daughter looking for her mother turns into a real twister which kept me guessing. As a target for a hit-man Kinsey is forced to hire Dietz for protection so loses some of that independance. The romance between them sparked rather suddenly but was a nice touch.
    • 3/5
      Missing person. Kinsey quickly locates a mother, who's been out of contact with her daughter for months. She doesn't seem too keen to return to Santa Terisa, and when she dies unexpectedly Kinsey is called in to investigate her last movements. Intertwined (slightly) with this is a completely unrelated sub-plot, where Kinsey is the target of an assasin and has to "hire" a bodyguard. He gets slightly proactive, and in the final chaptwer the bodycount rises from 1 to 8.