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Title: R is for ... Really disappointed
Review: As many reviewers have pointed out, this latest installment of Sue Grafton's alphabet series finds Kinsey Millhone reduced to basically a chaffeur for a parolee who displays the common sense of a doorknob. And Kinsey, inexplicably, just goes along with everything. Private investigator? The scattered instances of Kinsey actually investigating anything are mildly interesting but few and far between. I give the book two stars -- one for just continuing the series about a character that many of us love, and one for the hypochondriacal discourses of the character William, which are a hoot.This book reminded me of the lackluster "H is for Homicide," which, despite the title, was mostly about ... auto insurance fraud (yawn), and in which Kinsey again spent most of the book going along for the ride, literally. If you want to read about money laundering, then knock yourself out with "R," but as for me, if I'm going to read a mystery, give me a juicy murder any day.
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