Published by Random House Audio in 2002.
Read by Judy Kaye.
Duration: 12 hours, 38 minutes.
Unabridged.
I have bounced through the Kinsey Milhone series for my entire adult life. I come and go with no discernible pattern - just popping in and out at random times in this 25 book series. It's pretty easy to do with this series because, while there are larger plots going on concerning Kinsey's family and sometimes here landlord, they don't move very quickly so I can just figure out what's going on with the family drama and then get to the mystery and enjoy how Kinsey solves it.
Synopsis
The mystery in Q is for Quarry was inspired by a real life cold case from the late 1960s. The author and the local police were hoping that the book might inspire someone to come forward with some new information. Sadly, that didn't happen in real life.
In the novel, two retired cops in ill health decide to reopen a cold case that has always haunted them and solve it before they die. They hire Kinsey to help. She will act as a set of fresh eyes and be much more physically mobile than either of them.
The case is about the body of a young woman that was found murdered and tossed into an old quarry. No one was able to identify her and there were precious few leads so the case just dried up. One of the retired cops wants to prove a felon with a long violent rap sheet did it (it fits in this m.o. pretty well) while the other retired cop is basically hoping that working the case will reinvigorate his sickly old friend.
Kinsey is into it basically because she's got nothing else going on and she really wants to see what these two old dogs can do once they get back into the hunt.
What they find is nothing like what they expected...
My Review
They mystery is excellent. I would rate it 5 stars. The teamwork between the three of them is fun and watching these two old guys snipe and gripe is half of the fun. Of course the sniping and griping comes from mutual concern and the love that comes from a decades-old friendship.
I quickly grew weary of the ongoing story line about Kinsey's past and a possible rapprochement with her extended family that she didn't know anything about when she was growing up. Those people are super-annoying and I'd just as soon not waste my time hearing about them. In a 12+ hour audiobook, they probably took up no more than 2 hours - but it felt like it was almost half of the book! This part of the story took a 5 star score down to a 4 star score.
Judy Kaye is excellent as the reader for this series.
I rate this audiobook 4 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton.
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