This is the seventh, and so far, Grafton is doing quite well at making her story fit the preselected title. This suddenly reminded me of John D. Macdonald's Travis McGee titles - all those colors, 21 of them - not to mention more than fifty other books. Okay, add him to the list.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, this is about a Grafton book. The gumshoe is tough, macho dude Dietz (Robert?) I'm sure his given name has been mentioned, but he is so macho that it is seldom used). Actually, Dietz was introduced, although neither we nor Kinsey met him face-to-face, in an earlier book in the series - I think it was "A." This time he is very much a presence as he is hired to be Kinsey's bodyguard after an unhappy convict confides his plan to "get" the judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, and primary witness against him (Kinsey) to a police informant in prison.
One of his hitmen succeeds in killing the judge and the rest go into high security mode - enter Dietz.
In the meantime, Kinsey is trying to carry out an investigation of her own, unrelated to the hit list. This takes her out and about and, naturally, puts her in the sights of another killer.
She still hasn't killed anyone. I'm beginning to be concerned that I allowed someone to put their bias over on me, although there are still nineteen books to go. Or will be, I think Grafton is up to "W."
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