Title: J is for JudgmentSeries: A Kinsey Milhone Novel #10
Author: Sue Grafton
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published Date: May 15th, 1993 by
Genre: Mystery, Fiction
Audio Time: 9 hr 18 min
Format: Audiobook
My Rating: ★ ★
Goodreads Summary:
"J" is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead these past five years. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz.
"In truth, the facts about Wendell Jaffe had nothing to do with my family history, but murder is seldom tidy and no one ever said revelations operate in a straight line. It was my investigation into the dead man's past that triggered the inquiry into my own, and in the end, the two stories became difficult to separate."
Five years ago, when Jaffe's thirty-five-foot Fuji ketch was found drifting off the Baja coast, it seemed a sure thing he'd gone overboard. The note he left behind admitted he was flat broke, his business bankrupt, his real estate gambit nothing but a huge Ponzi scheme about to collapse, with criminal indictment certain to follow. When the authorities soon after descended on his banks and his books, there was nothing left: Jaffe had stripped the lot.
"Given my insatiable curiosity and my natural inclination to poke my nose in where it doesn't belong, it was odd to realize how little attention I'd paid to my own past. I'd simply accepted what I was told, constructing my personal mythology on the flimsiest of facts."
But Jaffe wasn't quite without assets. There was the $500,000 life insurance policy made out to his wife and underwritten by California Fidelity. With no corpse to prove death, however, the insurance company was in no hurry to pay the claim. Dana Jaffe had to wait out the statutory five years until her missing husband could be declared legally dead. Just two months before Wendell Jaffe was sighted in that dusty resort bar, California Fidelity finally paid in full. Now they wanted the truth. And they were willing to hire Kinsey Millhone to dig it up.
As Kinsey pushes deeper into the mystery surrounding Wendell Jaffe's pseudocide, she explores her own past, discovering that in family matters as in crime, sometimes it's better to reserve judgment.
"J" is for judgment: the kind we're quick to make and often quicker to regret.
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My Review:
During Blogmas 2017 I decided to challenge myself to read 5 books from the year I was born (1993). J is for Judgment was one of the books I choose.
Going into this book, I wasn't really sure what to expect. I knew Sue Grafton is an extremely popular author which is partially why I choose one of her books for this challenge, but besides that, I don't know anything about her writing style or this series in particular.
I was really looking forward to this book, not only was it a book written in the 90's but it also has a women P.I. who also seemed to be well respected in what she was doing!
J is for Judgment followed Kinsey who is working for California Fidelity as a Private Investigator and is supposed to find out if a man is really dead or not. Kinsey learns all about the crimes he committed and how it affected everyone in his life. This part I found really interesting and I wish there had been more of this in the book. I wanted to know how his wife had managed to make things work with raising two sons, a husband who is now missing/dead, and a ton of people angry at them for what he did. Instead, we got a lot of side stories, and a lot of just filler it seemed.
Kinsey is one of those characters that I truly did try and want to like, but the more we got to know her the less I really cared for her. I'm not exactly sure why either. She was smart and well respected, but for some reason, I just couldn't ever fully like her. (Does anyone else feel this way?)
Truthfully this book just wasn't for me. Normally I like all the little side stories in books, but with this one I just found myself getting annoyed with them. I was never able to really care about any of the characters, and truthfully half of them I couldn't stand by the end of the book. As of right now, I don't plan on continuing on with this series, but I am glad I did give it a try.
While this book wasn't for me, I can see why at the time a lot of people liked it. But I'm not sure it's going to be one that continues to age well as even more time goes on.
"The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same."
During Blogmas 2017 I decided to challenge myself to read 5 books from the year I was born (1993). J is for Judgment was one of the books I choose.
Going into this book, I wasn't really sure what to expect. I knew Sue Grafton is an extremely popular author which is partially why I choose one of her books for this challenge, but besides that, I don't know anything about her writing style or this series in particular.
I was really looking forward to this book, not only was it a book written in the 90's but it also has a women P.I. who also seemed to be well respected in what she was doing!
J is for Judgment followed Kinsey who is working for California Fidelity as a Private Investigator and is supposed to find out if a man is really dead or not. Kinsey learns all about the crimes he committed and how it affected everyone in his life. This part I found really interesting and I wish there had been more of this in the book. I wanted to know how his wife had managed to make things work with raising two sons, a husband who is now missing/dead, and a ton of people angry at them for what he did. Instead, we got a lot of side stories, and a lot of just filler it seemed.
Kinsey is one of those characters that I truly did try and want to like, but the more we got to know her the less I really cared for her. I'm not exactly sure why either. She was smart and well respected, but for some reason, I just couldn't ever fully like her. (Does anyone else feel this way?)
Truthfully this book just wasn't for me. Normally I like all the little side stories in books, but with this one I just found myself getting annoyed with them. I was never able to really care about any of the characters, and truthfully half of them I couldn't stand by the end of the book. As of right now, I don't plan on continuing on with this series, but I am glad I did give it a try.
While this book wasn't for me, I can see why at the time a lot of people liked it. But I'm not sure it's going to be one that continues to age well as even more time goes on.
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