S is for Silence

I spent a little longer on the treadmill yesterday to hear more of S is for Silence (12 hours unabridged) by Sue Grafton. I still have a couple of hours to go, and it's certainly keeping my earbuds in my ears.

The latest Kinsey Millhone mystery is a cold case investigation, set in the eighties with flashbacks to 1953. Kinsey is hired to find Violet Sullivan, who would probably have been called a loose woman in her day.

As Kinsey works her way through a list of people who knew Violet including her abusive ex-husband and her worshipful former baby sitter, alternating chapters flash back to third-person vignettes featuring key figures from 1953.

Rich addition
The well-realized flashbacks add richness to the narrative while building suspense as Kinsey inches toward answers even as we realize people are lying to her.

Maybe today I'll find out what happened.

My next listen
I'm kind of liking this kind of mystery, so next I'll be listening to Sunstroke by Jesse Kellerman, the tale of a young woman unraveling the past of her boss and lover.