"M" is for Malice

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Summary: M is for Must Read
Review: Once again, Sue Grafton creates a story that one can not put down. Kinsey gets involved with the Maleks who are nothing but trouble. The ending was a big surprise!!! I plan on reading N-Z!

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Summary: Sue At Her Best
Review: After a somewhat disappointing last entry, Sue Grafton and Kinsey Milhone are back in great style in a non-stop thriller. M is for Malice sends us back to the great tradition of detective stories and to the novelty of the alphabetical crimes we learn to love since A. Although the book tends to get a little depressive towards the end (revealing, in fact, the truth about the most disappoinitng features of our human nature), once we finish reading we are certain that there is still hope for all. Fate is inescapable in certain ways, but also can be at our side and helping us to change our destinies

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Summary: Great surprise twist at the end!!
Review: Well, Sue Grafton has done it again! Another great book in her A-Z series! Kinsey tracks done a missing person, Guy Malek, after he has been gone for 18 years. His family is not happy to share their inheritance with him and then Guy winds up dead. Who is the murderer? All of the family members have a motive. Kinsey feels responsible for his death because she is the one who found him and she won't stop until the murder is solved. The end of this book has an unexpected twist that I will not give away. You'll have to read it to find out.

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Summary: Kinsey's at her best!
Review: Each moment of this latest in the Kinsey Millhone series is enjoyable. I sat into the wee hours of the morning reading Sue Grafton's "M is for Malice" and by the time I had finished, I was left hoping that the next book in the series has already been writen and is on it's way to the editor's. There was a haunting softness in Kinsey's relationship with Guy, while reading it I couldn't help but want to see Kinsey's next moves towards her estranged family and Dietz. One of the best in the series

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Summary: Kinsey Millhone gets embroiled in a family feud
Review: *M is for Malice* takes Kinsey Millhone on an excursion into family relationships, hers and others. Kinsey's first cousin, an attorney, asks her to take on a job. Bader Malek, the wealthy owner of a construction firm, had died recently. Three of his four sons expect to inherit his wealth; the fourth, Guy, afer a wild and criminal adolescence, had disappeared eighteen years before. But the only will they can find divides the money among the four sons, so Kinsey is hired to find Guy. She does so with little trouble, but that just commences the confusion. He has reformed, or so he says, and wants to return and rectify the mistakes he made. But did he make all the mistakes he has been blamed for? His brothers do not welcome him as the prodigal son thus setting the stage for murder. This is a sharply-paced well-told story, as are all of Grafton's. Kinsey must sort out some of her own feelings about her family while helping the Malek family analyze their dilemma with Guy, and she gets more involved with the prodigal son than she would really like to be. She must also deal with the return of an old lover to her life which brings out all her fears of rejection and her unwillingness to commit to anybody because of these fears. All of these emotional confusions help to produce another fascinating and entertaining mystery

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Summary: Grafton keeps getting better and better.
Review: Her best yet, following her rather dispirited last effort, L IS FOR LAWLESS (which might better have memorialized LISTLESS in the title). Having read them all (and we just get 26 total??), I do have other favorites to rival her latest in the Kinsey Millhone oeuvre. She's dropped the hokey "Sincerely Yours" type ending, and now is just writing top-flight fiction. Reminds me of vintage Ross MacDonald. High praise that. At this point in her career, with its own contemplated ending, for Sue Grafton, now, M REALLY is for "Masterful."

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Summary: a 'must read' for grafton fans
Review: Past relationships of both the victim and the detective (Kinsey Milhone) play a role in making this a 'must read' for Grafton fans and mystery lovers! This is very possibly the best of the series - Kinsey is finally growing up

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Summary: Buy, Borrow or Steal it!
Review: Another winning story about Kinsey Millhone - that's TWO l's in Millhone (have to read the book to get that one!) I have been anxiously awaiting this book. For those of you who have not read her books, you are the lucky ones. I say you are lucky because you can begin with "A is for Alibi" and have your fill of Kinsey's escapades, and hopefully be done with them by the time the next novel is done. The rest of us faithful followers have to patiently wait for around a year to get our "fix". It's worth it, the books just keep getting better every year! Every time I read one of her books, I always find myself wishing the next novel was already out so I could continue reading

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Summary: I for inferior
Review: Sorry to disagree with other readers, but I found this step in Grafton's alphabet to be rather disappointing. I've read them all, and I may be blaming Grafton for not staying the same for all these novels. But the hallmarks of great Grafton are gone: no great jogs, no interesting sandwiches, no outings with the badly wrinkled black dress. There is a disspiritedness about the whole work that culminates in a really odd ending. Perhaps Grafton has grown beyond Kinsey. For the sake of my dumb-salve quotient, I want the old KM back

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Summary: In search of a long-lost brother
Review: The Malek family has two problems--a long-lost brother and a missing will. When the patriarch of the family dies, it becomes imperative for three brothers to find their brother Guy, who was banished from the family many years ago. PI Kinsey Millhone looks for Guy and finds a much different man from the one who left the family many years ago. The remaining brothers seem determined to get Guy's share of the father's estate and will stop at nothing to accomplish this. When a murder occurs, Kinsey sees the Malek brothers as chief suspects. In this edition of the series, Dietz returns for another fling at romance with Kinsey and the murderer finds an interesting sort of justice.