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Title: My least favorite "letter" so far
Review: Sue Grafton can usually be counted on for a good read, but in this 17th. book of the series, she stumbles a bit. She uses a true story as the basis of her book, and while this sounds like a good idea, somehow it just doesn't work. Kinsey is asked by her friend Lieutenant Dolan to help solve an old murder in which he and his friend Stacey Oliphant discovered a body which had never been identified by any name other than Jane Doe. Stacey is having health problems and Dolan figures that a little police work is all it will take to pull him out of the doldrums. (Where's the reasoning there?) Grafton throws in a few scenes with the estranged members of Kinsey's family, but nothing seems to work in this slow-moving book. The characters are shallow and I never really cared whether Jane Doe or her murderer was ever revealed. I live in hope that Grafton will do better on "R".
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