{"id":1540,"date":"2005-03-12T20:12:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1540.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","slug":"sue-grafton-r-is-for-ricochet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/03\/12\/sue-grafton-r-is-for-ricochet\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Grafton &#8211; <i>R is for Ricochet<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the latest Kinsey Millhone mystery is summed up by the very last paragraph of the book:  &#8220;So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned.  In the passing drama of life, I&#8217;m usually the heroine, but occasionally I&#8217;m simply a minor character in someone else&#8217;s play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kinsey hooks up with Cheney Phillips, and gets to have some fun in the romantic arena.  Henry&#8217;s love life is up in the air.  And there&#8217;s a big money laundering fraud going on, but that&#8217;s mostly taken care of by Reba Laffery, a kind of agressive, risk-happy anti-Kinsey.  Kinsey is supposed to be shepherding Reba after her release from prison, but she finds herself caught up in Reba&#8217;s tangle of loves and lies.  <\/p>\n<p>Reba, however, is quite capable of taking care of herself, and she does just so, leaving Kinsey to get on with her own personal issues.  It&#8217;s a lightweight, as Graftons go, but it&#8217;s plenty of fun.  And it&#8217;s nice to see Kinsey getting a slice of happiness for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the latest Kinsey Millhone mystery is summed up by the very last paragraph of the book: &#8220;So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned. In the passing drama of life, I&#8217;m usually the heroine, but occasionally I&#8217;m simply a minor character in someone else&#8217;s play.&#8221; Kinsey hooks up with Cheney Phillips, and gets to have some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}