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G.P. Putnam's Sons (2008), Edition: Reprint, 384 pages
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:tresâ?¢pass \'tres-p s\ n: a transgression of law involving oneâ??s obligations to God or to oneâ??s neighbor; a violation of moral law; an offense; a sin â??Websterâ??s New International Dictionary (second edition, unabridged) In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Graftonâ??s T is for Trespass is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the perspective of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing listeners to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private care-giving jobs. The true horror of this novel builds with excruciating tension as the listener foresees the awfulness that lies ahead. The wrenching suspense lies in whether Kinsey Millhone will realize what is happening in time to intervene. T is for Trespassâ??dealing with issues of identity theft, elder abuse, betrayal of trust, and the breakdown in the institutions charged with caring for the weak and the dependentâ??targets an all-too-real rip in the social fabric. Grafton takes us into far darker territory than she has ever traversed, leaving us with a true sense of the horror embedded in the seeming ordinariness of the world we think we know. T… (more)
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Kirkus' Reviews
Kinsey Millhone’s 20th case, which pits her against a creepy pair of abusers ... is one of her finest. ... Each of Kinsey’s cases stretches the private-eye formula in new ways. [T for Trespass], which reads like vintage Ruth Rendell, will bring shivers to every reader ...
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LibraryThing member manadabomb
Excellent book in the alphabet series. This one was a little disturbing, most likely because I've spent so much time in nursing homes and around the elderly this year. Kinsey's neighbor, Gus, is in his 80's and ends up falling and dislocating his shoulder. The doctor determines that Gus can't go
There's no rampant violence in this book. Just quiet cunning and elder abuse that is more horrific than a psychopath. Solana Rojas is the nurse who has stolen someone's identity and makes a habit of caring for elderly people and stealing from them and disposing of them when she's done. She's crazy, yes. But able to do all her evil deeds right under everyone's nose. Very scary when you think how vunerable the elderly can be, especially when they have no relatives left.
I wonder what Grafton is going to do when she runs out of letters?
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home without care. His long-lost niece hires an LVN and from there, all hell breaks loose.There's no rampant violence in this book. Just quiet cunning and elder abuse that is more horrific than a psychopath. Solana Rojas is the nurse who has stolen someone's identity and makes a habit of caring for elderly people and stealing from them and disposing of them when she's done. She's crazy, yes. But able to do all her evil deeds right under everyone's nose. Very scary when you think how vunerable the elderly can be, especially when they have no relatives left.
I wonder what Grafton is going to do when she runs out of letters?
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LibraryThing member susanamper
might rightly be titled T is for Terrible. Sue Grafton, 2008. The subjects are elder abuse and insurance scams. Kinsey Millhone, off her game eating QPs and fries, stumbles over the clues that solve both cases. There is no detecting involved, only dumb luck; dumb being the operative word here. The
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villain, Solana Rojas, is not equal to the task assigned to her. She is not a villain; she is a vile woman who scams seniors out of their savings. Both story plots and resolutions are awkwardly handled, as though Grafton just ran out of steam. Not Recommended. Show Less
LibraryThing member MrsHillReads
The pace wasn't real fast...but the topic (abuse of the elderly) was very timely. Good read. Thought provoking.
LibraryThing member FutureBestSeller
Sue is back on top! This has to be her darkest book yet! She kept me on the edge and shocked me. And thank heavens...Kinsey is acknowledging her flaws...maybe there is hope for her yet!
LibraryThing member AGrab
I read both Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich, but as authors they do not compare. SG is a true artist, while JE pumps them out so fast it's amazing. T could have been titled is for Terrific because the suspense and forboding built so steadily. Now I have to wait a couple years for "U" but I'll get
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to read several numbers worth of Janet Evanovich's output of Stephanie Plum. Show Less
LibraryThing member beata
After reading this book, you will think twice before hiring a nurse for your elderly relatives and be very suspicious if you are vinvolved in the car accident. A bit different from the previous letters of the alphabet with Kinsey M.
LibraryThing member phoenixcomet
Typical Kinsey Millhone story where Sue Grafton delivers the goods. This time Kinsey faces a sneaky manipulator guilty of identity theft. While set in the 1980's, the subject of identity theft is one that is more relevant to the 2000s. The story hooks you and keeps you reading until the end. Of
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course, it doesn't hurt that I've read every Kinsey Millhone book starting back in the 1980s, so I'm a bona fide fan. Show Less
LibraryThing member Yllom
One of Grafton's more riveting and disturbing books in awhile. Told alternatively from 'Solana Rojas' perspective, Grafton has created a truly evil antagonist for Kinsey.
LibraryThing member milibrarian
This books is a little different from the earlier Kinsey Millhone books. Parts of the story are told from the villain's perspective. When Kinsey's neighbor Gus falls, she and Henry try to help his niece, who lives in New York, find a nurse to stay with him. Little do they know, that the woman who
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is hired is not who she claims to be. She only wants to take control of his assets to make herself rich. At the same time Kinsey must also investigated an automobile accident which involves insurance fraud. A good read, but a few too many coincidences occur before the truth is revealed. Show Less
LibraryThing member Kathy89
An elderly neighbor of Kinsey's is taken advantage of and abused by a con artist thief posing as a health care worker. She stalks and terrorizes Kinsey realizing that Kinsey knows what she's doing.
LibraryThing member aimless22
Last summer, I read Ms. Grafton's entire series in preparation for this book. I eagerly awaited the book to arrive at the library for me.
I encountered a strange deja-vu throughout most of the book. Not believing for a second that I had already read it, nor that Ms. Grafton was using a previous
Now about the book . . .
As usual, Kinsey MillHone handles multiple cases for varied clients during the course of the novel. I have fallen in love with her small group of friends that she has surrounded herself with. I sometimes root for her to get more friends her own age, but she so loves these elderly folks and they are entertaining to the reader.
I love the idea of this spunky female PI with a very conspicuous blue Mustang. It's a great addition to the character. I laughed at many of the comments relating to the new car.
Overall, an enjoyable read, as are all of Ms. Grafton's Millhone books. I look forward to U. U is for ??
I encountered a strange deja-vu throughout most of the book. Not believing for a second that I had already read it, nor that Ms. Grafton was using a previous
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case, I chalked up this deja-vu to the idea that I read an excerpt of T is for Trespass when I read S is for Suicide.Now about the book . . .
As usual, Kinsey MillHone handles multiple cases for varied clients during the course of the novel. I have fallen in love with her small group of friends that she has surrounded herself with. I sometimes root for her to get more friends her own age, but she so loves these elderly folks and they are entertaining to the reader.
I love the idea of this spunky female PI with a very conspicuous blue Mustang. It's a great addition to the character. I laughed at many of the comments relating to the new car.
Overall, an enjoyable read, as are all of Ms. Grafton's Millhone books. I look forward to U. U is for ??
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LibraryThing member marient
Kinsey Millone comes us against a sociopath using the name of Solana Rojas.. The novel deals with identity theft, elder abuse, betrayal of trust and the breakdown in the institutions charged with caring for the weak and dependant.
LibraryThing member shawnd
The 2007 installation of the long-running alphabetical series. The gripping drama features the tom-boy private investigator Kinsey Millhone as usual. She's surrounded by her typical coterie of oldsters, including a brief appearance by former boyfriend/cop Cheney. The story revolves around a nasty
The story is not taut. In fact, someone could have cut 30 pages out of the first 100 and the book would not be the worse for wear. The story about Henry's girlfriend is unnecessary and tiresome. Hang in there dear reader, it picks up smartly around page 90 or so and then proceeds with the typical Grafton pace of events. The ending is no let down from the typical thrilling finish. Overall a solid contribution to the series, although the slow beginning--and Grafton's new attempt to write third person narrative in addition to Kinsey-speak--makes one wonder if there's some fraying at the edges here.
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fall taken by an octogenarian neighbor and the unfortunate live-in help his niece hired to take care of him. Kinsey is pitted against the smart and nefarious, very true-to-life live-in; the story features identity-theft, break-ins, multiple cases being solved by Kinsey, and all the usually hari kari the loyal reader case come to expect.The story is not taut. In fact, someone could have cut 30 pages out of the first 100 and the book would not be the worse for wear. The story about Henry's girlfriend is unnecessary and tiresome. Hang in there dear reader, it picks up smartly around page 90 or so and then proceeds with the typical Grafton pace of events. The ending is no let down from the typical thrilling finish. Overall a solid contribution to the series, although the slow beginning--and Grafton's new attempt to write third person narrative in addition to Kinsey-speak--makes one wonder if there's some fraying at the edges here.
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LibraryThing member Wiszard
Another great book from Sue Grafton. Kinsey Milhone is in for the fight of her life (haven't I said this 19 times before :-).
LibraryThing member she_climber
Ah the soothing sound of Judy Kaye and another wonderful book from Sue Grafton. I very much enjoyed this book and found excuses to be in the car to keep listening to it. But I still can't help but wonder when will Kinsey discover the internet (although it was touched on in this book).
LibraryThing member mrtall
I'm a Sue Grafton fan -- no one is any better at writing about trivia and still keeping you interested. I don't mean this as faint praise; it's a real skill, the way Grafton recounts the day-by-day minutiae Kinsey Milhone's life, as she remains marooned back in the mid-80s.
But Grafton's taking too
Unfortunately, she's slipped again here in T is for Trespass. The setup is good -- Kinsey's tracking an identity-thief and elder-exploiter who's a real piece of work -- but the book is too long, and too often waylaid by Grafton's insistence on padding out the storyline with insipid little vignettes from the lives of Henry, Kinsey's elderly landlord, and his even more ancient siblings. Henry's involvement in investigating the story's crimes would have been enough for Grafton to illustrate that old people need not be written off as derelict; she doesn't need to embroil them in junior-high-level romances.
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much for granted these days, I fear. After a string of limp efforts, her previous Milhone novel, i.e. S is for Silence, was a welcome return to the tauter plotting and deeper character development of her best books. Unfortunately, she's slipped again here in T is for Trespass. The setup is good -- Kinsey's tracking an identity-thief and elder-exploiter who's a real piece of work -- but the book is too long, and too often waylaid by Grafton's insistence on padding out the storyline with insipid little vignettes from the lives of Henry, Kinsey's elderly landlord, and his even more ancient siblings. Henry's involvement in investigating the story's crimes would have been enough for Grafton to illustrate that old people need not be written off as derelict; she doesn't need to embroil them in junior-high-level romances.
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LibraryThing member carrjr
Kinsey Millhone is at it again. The time is 1987. The next door neighbor, Gus, has fallen and can't take care of himeself and the only living relative is a niece on the east coast., She has assumed the identity of Solana Rojas and is now taking care of Gus. As time goes on she has cleaned out his
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home and also his bank account. Her overweight mentally retarded son, Tiny, stays at Gus' and after Kinsey has closed in on what is going on, Tiny attacks her and ends up dying. "Solana" is very devious. She lures Kinsey to a local hotel and finds Henry (her landlord) on the floor drugged. Solana tries to attack Kinsey but succombs to her death via the balcony and the pool deck below. Show Less
LibraryThing member emitnick
Standard Millhone, with plenty of Quarterpounders with Cheese (and some jogging to offset the damage) and cussing. Kinsey sticks close to home, with trouble appearing right next door in the form of a pychopathic home care nurse who sets out to bilk an old man of all his money. Satisfying.
LibraryThing member KPW
Kinsey Milhone takes on a cold case & returns to a good detective story, after taking a detour into her relationships for too many books.
LibraryThing member jepeters333
Begins with the day-to-day life of a private investigator, Grafton shifts to the voice of Solana Rojas, a chilling sociopath. Rojas stole that identity to gain access to private caregiving jobs. Deals with issues of elder abuse and the breakdown of institutions charged with caring for the weak.
LibraryThing member reading_fox
More stylistic variations on the same growing old Kinsey terriotry. In addtion it's a recycling and mashing together of two previous plots - the car-insurance fraudsters and the greedy nursing home.
This is two interweaving though totally distant plots that alternate interspersed with some random
All the interaction with Solana was fine and would have made a typical Kinsey novel. The random jobs bits were unnecessary and just dull page fillers, although an attempt was made to link them around the edges into the Solana plot it was very contrived and not worthwhile. There are several other very contrived and unlikely co-incidences too, all of which spoil the readers enjoyment of a mystery.
The excerts from Solana's POV like the historical exerts in the last book came across as experiments in varying writing style, and like most experiments needed much further refining. There was a brief mention of the beginning of the computer age (this is set in '89) but from the sound of it Kinsey will still be type writing her reports for some time to come.
readable, but hardly enthralling.
Random Subplot
Henry is dating a pushy real estate saleswomen.
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This is two interweaving though totally distant plots that alternate interspersed with some random
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chapters from the 'bad girl's POV for no reason. Kinsey doesn't have any major jobs on at the moment and is making ends meet by serving papers, and hunting down a witness to a car accident. In addition one of her elderly neighbours never mentioned before, falls and breaks his shoulder. His neice eventually hires a home carer, one Solana Rojas who's abrupt manner sets off Kinsey's inquistive nature. The two don't get along well and with Gus's health in decline Kinsey has to take prompt action, sparking a dramatic showdown. All the interaction with Solana was fine and would have made a typical Kinsey novel. The random jobs bits were unnecessary and just dull page fillers, although an attempt was made to link them around the edges into the Solana plot it was very contrived and not worthwhile. There are several other very contrived and unlikely co-incidences too, all of which spoil the readers enjoyment of a mystery.
The excerts from Solana's POV like the historical exerts in the last book came across as experiments in varying writing style, and like most experiments needed much further refining. There was a brief mention of the beginning of the computer age (this is set in '89) but from the sound of it Kinsey will still be type writing her reports for some time to come.
readable, but hardly enthralling.
Random Subplot
Henry is dating a pushy real estate saleswomen.
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LibraryThing member JacqiB
I love Sue Grafton's characaters, they really live on the page for me. Another cracking yarn with multiple threads but without being confusing.
LibraryThing member brsquilt
Did audio version on my iPod. Excellent reader. Did not like violent parts, but all in all a good mystery.
LibraryThing member Brandie
I have read these books starting with A. I love Sue Grafton's writing and the character she has created in these stories.
This book felt different from the others she has written - of course it has been some time since I read the S book so that could be a part of it.
However, this book had a twist
I was a bit disappointed in the ending though. It felt rushed. As if a) she ran out of time to put it all in or b) they gave her a maximum number of pages and she was almost out of room. I think it was good and interesting and I enjoyed it, but I would have loved if there was more writing, a more drawn out ending for us to really enjoy and relish and try to figure out what was coming next!
This book felt different from the others she has written - of course it has been some time since I read the S book so that could be a part of it.
However, this book had a twist
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in that we flipped between the bad guy and Kinsey's point of view. A very interesting read for sure.I was a bit disappointed in the ending though. It felt rushed. As if a) she ran out of time to put it all in or b) they gave her a maximum number of pages and she was almost out of room. I think it was good and interesting and I enjoyed it, but I would have loved if there was more writing, a more drawn out ending for us to really enjoy and relish and try to figure out what was coming next!
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LibraryThing member AnnieHidalgo
Decent, but why does Kinsey Millhone kill most of the bad guys lately?
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English
Original publication date
2007-12-04
Physical description
384 p.; 4.18 inches
ISBN
0425224848 / 9780425224847