Another Kinsey Millhone mystery.
The call comes on a Monday monring from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. The weekend before, he'd bought a stack of cardboard boxes. In one, there was a collection of childhood memorabilia with Kinsey's name all over it. For thirty bucks, he was offering Kinsey the lot.
Thought she's never been one fo personal possessions, curiosity is a powerful force. She agrees to meet the guy, then hands over a twenty (she may be curious, but she's also cheap and she loves a bargain).
What she finds among the items is an old undelivered letter to her that will force her to reexamine her beliefs about the breakup of her first marriage . . . about the honor of her first husband . . . and about an old unsolved murder.
It will put her live in the gravest peril.
I enjoyed this story, just like the others in this series. My bummer part was I listened to it, and this one had a new reader. Didn't like that much. This person doesn't do mens voices well and that drove me nuts. If you've read this series before, you'll know that you don't get too much info on Kinsey's past. This one is all about the time she was married to her first ex, which was during the Vietnam war. Lots of reference to that too. I found a certain part of the end interesting, because it was a bit different and this scene early, after she meets the scavenger guy. She wants the name of the storage place, which he wants to give her for a price. She decides to snoop thu his house. Upon entering thru the doggie door, she comes face-to-face with his "new" dog (he told her his dog had died). Lets just say the following scene was very entertaining. I could really picture the scene.
Amanda
Everyone can afford to give away a smile!
