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Solana seems perfect for the job - on paper. As is usual for her, "T Is for Trespass" finds her juggling several small cases at once, going from one to another as time and opportunity allow. The books are coming a little bit farther apart these days but Grafton is on the downhill stretch now with only five books still to go. Sadly, though, that is not all she has been stealing - and when she has it all, her "patients" might just be asked to pay the ultimate price for her services.Solana Rojas does not appear to be a threat to someone like Kinsey Millhone, a much younger woman who has had to fight for her life more than once but, when Kinsey starts nosing around the old man's house to see how he is progressing , Solana's own street smarts are triggered.
At Grafton's current pace, readers will have to wait most of another decade to celebrate Kinsey's fortieth.Kinsey runs a one-woman shop, a small time detective agency that depends on word-of-mouth, repeat business and walk-ins for its survival. "T Is for Trespass" is the 20th of 21 Kinsey Millhone novels written by Sue Grafton since 1982 when she published the first of what is to be a 26-book series, one for each letter of the alphabet. But what if she is not really the Solana Rojas."T Is for Trespass" is a reminder that identify theft did not begin when the internet placed everyone's privacy at risk. Grafton's novels are heavy on dialogue and Kaye does particularly well in capturing Kinsey's sassy sense of irony and self-awareness. She is either trying to serve papers on those who do not want them, digging into what seems to be a shady injury claim against the insurance company she regularly does work for, or trying to help a friend evict non-paying residents from his apartment building.
In her own low-tech way, this duplicate Solana Rojas has been stealing identities and worming her way into the trust of elderly patients for a long time. During the portions of the book related from Solana's point-of-view, Kay's reading gives a haunting sense of that woman's lack of humanity. The Kinsey Millhone books are not written in real time - the last two are set in the late 1980s - and the 26th book (supposedly to be titled "Z Is for Zero") will be set in 1990 when Kinsey turns 40 years old. Before long, Kinsey is under a restraining order to stay clear of Solana Rojas, her guns are locked up at police headquarters, and Solana is actively looting the old man's estate. Everything is very routine until her grouchy neighbor suffers a fall bad enough to require home care during what promises to be a long and rather painful recovery.
Kinsey manages to talk the man's niece into flying across the country to make the arrangements and is asked to investigate the credentials of the lone nurse who applies for the job, one Solana Rojas. And while Kinsey is kept at bay, the old man is coming closer and closer to the day he draws his final breath.The 10-disc, 13-hour, "T Is for Trespass" audio book is read by Judy Kaye, an award-winning stage actress who perfectly captures the Kinsey Millhone spirit that longtime fans of the series know so well. The rousing, action-filed climax that ends this cautionary tale will not disappoint Sue Grafton fans.
This is an excellent entry in the Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton. Well written and paced, with a satisfying conclusion, I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good procedural.
This is what you expect from her alphabet books, but with more meat. Exciting and intriguing--could not put it down.
This will be my last Sue Grafton book. If I wanted to read a mundane and boring life, I could have saved money and read a few excerpts from my diary. Wait, most of my life was exciting, but anyway what a very boring book this was.
Book was up to Sue Grafton's usual standard. We have all the other books in the series and have not been disapointed by any of them.
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