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    R Is For Ricochet

    Written by Sue Grafton

    Narrated by Judy Kaye

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    R is for Ricochet is another thrilling installment in Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series.

    Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence. Nord Lafferty wants to be sure she stays straight, stays at home and away from the drugs, the booze, the gamblers.

    It seems a straightforward assignment for Kinsey: babysit Reba until she settles in, make sure she follows all the rules of her parole. Maybe all of a week's work. Nothing untoward-the woman seems remorseful and friendly. And the money is good. But life is never that simple, and Reba is out of prison less than 24 hours when one of her old crowd comes circling around.

    Readers have come to expect the unexpected from Sue Grafton, and R is for Ricochet is no exception. In it, a complex and clever money-laundering scheme is just a cover for a novel that is all about love: love gone wrong, love betrayed, love denied. And love avenged. For Reba Lafferty, its moral is clear: Sometimes what you hand out in life comes back to bite you in the ass. Sometimes the good guys win, even when they lose.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 13, 2004
    ISBN9780739304242
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    R Is For Ricochet
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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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    • 3/5
      BOTTOM-LINE:More like rebound than ricochet..PLOT OR PREMISE:Kinsey is hired to be a babysitter for a newly-paroled wayward daughter who apparently turned to embezzlement when her gambling losses got too high..WHAT I LIKED:The description of the daughter's original crime, the limited evidence against her, and a rapid guilty plea sound a tad suspicious, and so it isn't a great surprise to find that her former boss (the one she supposedly embezzled from) is sniffing around her in an oddly-friendly manner just after she is paroled. It also doesn't take long for the various federal agencies to all show up hoping Kinsey will convince wayward Reba to inform on her former boss about money laundering and drug cartels. Reba's definitely a handful, and there are some moments where Kinsey and Reba almost act like friends, even if can't last..WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE:The financial stuff is a little too simplistic, the feds are mostly caricatures, and the ending has almost nothing to do with Kinsey, she's just along for the ride (as the book itself notes in the epilogue)..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.
    • 2/5
      A good read until the last 10% when once again Grafton has her detective go brain dead, I suppose to make things more "exciting."
    • 3/5
      This was a hard one for me. My least favorite of the series.
    • 4/5
      Kinsey Millhone is asked by wealthy Nord Lafferty to drive down south to pick up his daughter who is being released from prison after serving time for stealing thousands of dollars from her employer. Her employer was also her lover and she took the fall for him. Kinsey asked by Nord to keep his daughter on the rails free from drugs, alcohol and gambling. Soon this proves to be difficult especially when Reba Lafferty discovers that her boss/lover used her to save himself and is now sleeping with the woman she thought was her best friend.Kinsey struggles to save Reba from herself while trying to help law enforcement get the goods on Reba's boss. Meanwhile Kinsey becomes involved with police detective, Cheney Phillips, and it develops into an emotionally and physically relationship.
    • 1/5
      R is for Rancid.

      After starting this book I was wondering how someone could have successfully had a series 18 books long with writing this poor. An hour into reading and I was yet to come across anything other than needless exposition. I then checked the reviews for this and the rest of the series. Apparently most people agree that the quality of Sue's writing has been in decline since her first two in this series. Clearly this is not the book to be picking up to become a fan, this is a book for long time fans who need a few hundred pages to keep them going between other novels.
    • 3/5
      Was annoyed by how passive Kinsey was. Reba initiates all the action. It's no wonder Reba thought Kinsey must have been a bad detective. Kinsey only shows some skill when Kinsey disappears on her. Kinsey is basically along for the ride. I also don't see any Ricochet in the book to justify the title.
    • 3/5
      Kinsey is hired to pick up a woman named Reba from prison. After that she gets caught up in the woman's complicated connections with a money laundering scheme with her ex-boyfriend. Reba is annoying and continuously makes bad decisions. At some point you hope that Kinsey will stop putting herself in horrible situations to help her out. Not my favorite in the series.
    • 4/5
      The best Kinsey since "L". The story and the characters of this one grabbed me. A well-conceived plot.
    • 3/5
      I have started many series in the mystery genre including Parker, Patterson, Gardiner, Child, Corban and others but have given up on most but keep coming back to Grafton. Perhaps this is because I find her books the most realistic. The main character, private investigator Kinsey Millhone, is no superwoman. She has two failed marriages, a fondness for junk food, and commitment problems. She solves her cases with nut and bolt investigative work and resorts to snooping and lying. She has relationships but Grafton does not let them take over the story. Her history has been unfolding throughout the series and her landlord, the 86 year old Henry, always makes an appearance. These side stories usually give a break to the action and tend to enhance the story rather than distract.This book, "R" is for Ricochet, is average for the series. Millhone is hired to pick up a young woman being released for prison and help her get settled. Of course things go wrong and Millhone has her hands full chasing after her charge. What is different in this book is that the client rather than Millhone takes charge of the story. Overall the story held my interest.I find Grafton to be a dependable author and I have not had one disappointment in the 18 books I have read in the series. I often read one of Grafton's books after heavier reads, on vacation, or on a long trip.
    • 4/5
      My favorite Private Investigator, Kinsey Milhone, is hired to transport a wealthy man’s daughter home after her release from prison and help in making sure she settles back into the “real” world. Counting on a fairly easy job, Kinsey did not expect to end up in the middle of a money laundering investigation, which is exactly what happens.

      In the latest installment of Sue Grafton’s alphabet mystery series, Ms. Grafton provides readers with a slightly different angle than usual, from that of the passenger seat, which seems to be where her main character Kinsey sits for most of the book, being led along by the various characters as the crime and mystery unravel. Love was also a theme throughout the book: love betrayed, love lost, and love found. Readers are allowed a glimpse of the love life of dear Henry, Kinsey’s landlord, who is by far one of my favorite characters in the series. Will Kinsey taste love in her own life? And then there is Reba, the parolee, who demonstrated that she is not quite so dumb once the blinders created by love come off.

      R is for Ricochet got off to a slow start, and I began wondering if perhaps I have been reading too many murder mysteries lately. However, about a third of the way through, the book finally grabbed my interest and held it until the very last word. This mystery was not so much about the whodunit, but was more about where Kinsey would find herself next and what she would be led to do by those around her. I could not help but feel a tad disconnected from events, not knowing everything that was going on. I imagine that was what Kinsey felt too and in that way, Sue Grafton succeeded. Sue Grafton is one of my favorite mystery writers. She never fails to create an intriguing and well-written book. Her characters could very well be real people. The mysteries are believable. In a society where so many authors go for over the top crimes and aim for the shock value, Ms. Grafton provides readers with a more down to earth and realistic mystery, a refreshing and needed change at times.
    • 4/5
      I gave this book 3.5 stars rounded to four simply because I couldn't stand the main character. The plot was the usual Sue Grafton story. It wasn't as unusual as some of her other plotlines, but it was still well-written. However, I found myself wanting to smack Reba Lafferty upside the head. However, since I'm sure that's exactly what Sue Grafton was trying to do with the character, I rounded up to 4 stars.
    • 4/5
      Sue Grafton continues to maintain the quality of her stories.
    • 3/5
      Kinsey is engaged to pick up a young woman who is being released from prison, and return her home to her ailing father. After the lengthy car ride with her charge, she becomes "involved" with the situation far beyond the obligations of her employment, as is her wont. In this case, I got very impatient with Kinsey for not putting on the brakes, any number of times, before putting herself in legal, moral and physical jeopardy. Her reasons just weren't good enough for me. But the ending was twisty and satisfying, Kinsey's love life is in a good place, while her "elderly" hot octogenarian landlord Henry's is complicated by his interfering siblings. An absorbing read, despite the quibbles.
    • 3/5
      Typical Kinsey with a twist
    • 5/5
      I'll have to admit that this is not the best of this series. But, it doesn't matter to me. I just enjoy catching up with Kinsey and Henry and Rosie and everyone else in Santa Teresa. I look forward with great anticipation to S-Z.
    • 3/5
      Kinsey Milhone gets hired by a wealthy older man to bring his daughter home from prison and the action begins. There is bank fraud, jilted lovers, and all the rest.
    • 5/5
      Acquired Dec 13, 2018, and read in two days. Read again starting July 19/19 and finished Oct 10/19. Two other books on the go at the same time. 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 book and series are for you.
    • 3/5
      A pretty good entry in the fairly reliable Kinsey Millhone series. Plutocrat's daughter Reba Lafferty was a wild one who mixed with bad company until finally the law caught up with her and put her away for a few years. Now she's due out on probation, and adoring daddy Nord Lafferty commissions Kinsey to babysit his daughter and make sure she settles back into civilian life, this time without all the booze and the drugs and stuff. And, of course, it proves to be not nearly so simple as anyone expected . . . Lots of fun to read, somewhat forgettable afterwards.
    • 5/5
      This is a very different story from the previous Kinsey stories and it's gotten some bad reviews because of that but it's in the top 5 for me. It's clever and kept my curiosity up through the whole story. Kinsey has been hired by a elderly gentlemen to pick up his 30 year old daughter, Reba, from the Correctional Institute for Women after doing 2 years for embezzlement. He wants her to get the daughter home and settled, then her job is done. Of course, we know it won't end there. Turns out, Reba was working with her employer when the money disappeared and they are heavily involved with money laundering. The FBI is after them and wants Reba to turn on her former boss. The way this all plays out makes a a clever story, in my opinion. There is no murder mystery here but the story we do have is great.We have two other side issues going on. Kinsey's relationship with Cheney and Henry's relationship with his brothers and the woman he's interested in. They keep Kinsey feeling like a real person in a real world. Yes, this is not the same type of story we've had in the past but it's one of the best.
    • 2/5
      In R is for Ricochet, Kinsey Milhone is given a seemingly easy assignment that pays well. She is being paid to babysit Reba Lafferty, the 32 year old daughter of a wealthy man who has just recently been paroled after embezzling. Things start off well for Kinsey. Reba is easy going and they get along well, but before long Reba falls back into her old crowd that got her into trouble to begin with.This is a less than stellar Sue Grafton novel. Although she isn’t one of my favorite writers, this was one of her weaker efforts. The idea behind the story isn’t all that inspiring. The plot is pretty bland. The best aspect of this novel is that the character development is fairly strong, otherwise there isn’t much here to like. I would skip this novel.Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
    • 4/5
      Not the best of the series, but not bad. Kinsey is asked to pick up a young lady from the penitentiary. They become companions, and Kinsey is caught up between the girl's revenge on her former boss and the FBI, not to mention a possible romance.
    • 2/5
      I've read every Sue Grafton written, and on the basis of this latest effort, I think Sue should knock Kinsey off and try a new detective. Milhone is completely ineffectual in this volume, simply letting circumstances play out. There is no detective work to speak of, and the plot is so thin that Grafton pads the book shamelessly with numbing descriptions of such things as federal money laundering statutes and irrelevant side plots like Henry's love life. Characters wander in, bore us for a while, and then are never heard from again. This has the sickening feel of a book written solely to meet a contractual obligation. The well has run dry. Don't waste your time with this book. Grafton's earlier volumes were far superior.
    • 4/5
      Another rather predictable Milhone detective. Rather boring, actually. If it weren't that I have read nearly the whole alphabet, I'm not sure I would continue. SPOILER ALERT: I'm not sure why the patsy had to die or the bimbo wasn't trounced completely.
    • 3/5
      Summertime and vacation means paperback fiction and lots of it. Sue Grafton is a reliable go-to for entertaining, gripping, plot-twisty stories with appealing characters.
    • 3/5
      There's a surprising angle in this one, where Kinsey, although remaining the narrator, almost takes a back seat to her companion Reba. Once the betrayal of her lover is revealed, Reba takes the initiative and does the majority of the work in solving the mystery, with Kinsey mostly hanging around says, "Are you sure we ought to be doing this?" and working on her new relationship. It's a refreshing change for this more-or-less formulaic series. This is the latest one I've read and it would be neat if Grafton could bring her character off the rails a little more as she works through S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z. It's a good story and I thought the international banking aspects were handled quite realistically.
    • 3/5
      A good light hearted female detective story.
    • 4/5
      Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is asked by a wealthy client to pick-up his paroled daughter from the penitentiary. All sorts of trouble ensues when Kinsey decides to "keep an eye on her"... the kind of trouble that involves the local/state police departments and the FBI.The plot isn't as exciting as some of Grafton's other plots. There certainly is the typical Kinsey Milhone ending, action climax right until the last sentence with a wrap-up epilogue. The most interesting character is this book is still Kinsey Milhone. She's a little less reckless and of course she has herself a fling. The one nice thing about this fling is he doesn't try to kill her or double cross her. There's a side story regarding Henry Pitts her neighbor and his family and love life but it's a little extraneous and doesn't seem to fit in. Although I love Milhone and Grafton, this isn't my favorite work but I will keep on with the series until she's done. Oh, and why is it called R for Ricochet?
    • 5/5
      Ms. Grafton brings more of Kinsey out in yet another of the Millhorne Mysteries, and it is a welcome change. Previous books have led the reader to believe Kinsey is more than a bit removed from the world socially, especially when it comes to relationships. family was tackled in athe previous book, and now, more of her personal realtionships are. As well as a new challenge - actually befriending the daughter of a client, and going well above her duites as an investigator to help her and keep her out of harms way. With the usual good twists and turns Ms. Grafton always delivers, this book goes down as one of my favorites of the series so far.
    • 4/5
      In R, the 18th book in Grafton's alphabet mysteries, private eye Kinsey Millhone is asked to keep an eye on a woman just released from prison who can't seem to help getting into mischief. With Grafton, like Evanovich, you know before you open to page one what you are going to get: a nice little mystery, no mental gymnastics required. Sometimes that's all I want out of a book.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite Kinsey Millhone novels yet!Kinsey is asked by a wealthy dying man to escort his daughter home from prison. What Kinsey thinks will be an easy one or two day job turns into a case involving money laundering, gambling, topless dancers called Misty and lots of cash. Kinsey becomes involved with Cheney Phillips, a vice cop introduced in "'M' is for Malice", which produces a lot of heat and the requisite drama.Good P.I. novel, with the love interest thrown in, makes for a fun and enjoyable read. (Read March 2006)