The Alphabet Ends with Y

[ndrosen]

Several years ago, I bought a copy of the late Sue Grafton’s Y Is for Yesterday, and I recently got around to reading it (many years before, I had read another of the Alphabet mysteries, I forget which). Ms Grafton dedicated the book to her grandchildren, hoping that they would lead lives of integrity; from the contents of the novel, she seems to have been quite concerned with integrity and other virtues, without being under any delusion that they are universally practiced.

Y Is for Yesterday is a quite competently written mystery, and further displays considerable psychological insight and lively style. There are multiple wrongdoers, of various kinds and to various degrees, and if perfect justice is not done by the end, it is difficult to imagine how it could be. Things could be much worse, and at least the citizens of Santa Teresa, California are safe from one killer.

Someday, when I don’t have so much work to do and so much else to read, I ought to find a copy of A Is for Alibi, and proceed from there.

Comments

[warriorsavant]

There's a series of sequels, once she gets past "Z:" AA is for Battery, BB is for Pellet, CC is for...
Anyhow, read several of them years ago. Enjoyed, but not rave-worthy. Like many series, after a few, they're really all the same book with a few details changed.

BTW: love Loreena McKennitt, especially "Mummers Dance."

[filkferengi]

I read the first book years & years ago. It's darker than I usually care for, but it's very competently written. I enjoyed it well enough, but not enough to continue with the series.