I decided to give A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton a try, and while I’m only 4 days and 62 pages in… I think I’m going to give up on this one. Maybe it’s because it was written in 1982, has small, tight font or maybe it’s because I simply am not a fan of private investigator novels. I found the same with Cuckoo’s Calling, there’s a lot of going to talk to people, of watching people, and not a whole lot of action.
In A is for Alibi, there was a whole page dedicated to how the PI found an address of some one she wanted to talk to, there was a paragraph or two about watching the balcony and describing the ferns a woman had. There are also too many characters to remember, I always have a hard time figuring out how this one and that one are connected to the case. I like the crime books that unfold as the crime does (like the In Death series by J.D. Robb), ones that are full of action that keep me turning the pages long into the night. Unlike this one that I seem to set down after a couple of pages. Life is too short to read books that I’m not fully enjoying. So for now, this one will go back to the library unfinished.
Analytical Amy 