B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries

I started this series because I read the Stephanie Plum numbered series and find them fun. Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone series is just as fun to read. There aren't as many strange characters to hinder or aid Kinsey as in the Stephanie books. But the story line is just as entertaining, and intelligent.
Makes for good diversion reading.

This second in the series holds up well. There is enough consistency in the genre for a comfortable familiarity, and enough difference and development of Kiney's life story to keep you coming back. The pace starts easy and builds as the investigation zeros in. I especially appreciate that these books show good and evil - light and dark - the mundane as well as the suspenceful. I don't enjoy hard-boiled, gruesome detective fiction.

One of the early Sue Grafton books -- it's interesting, having read many of her later "alphabet" novels, to see the early Kinsey Milhone and to follow character development as the series progresses. B is for Burglar is an entertaining novel, a good mystery with enough twists and turns to hold the reader's interest.

Not literary fiction but now the third in the series I've read and I love them for a light read of a good mystery. Well drawn central figure in Kinsey Millhouse. I've not read a lot of US mystery but I'm a sucker for a good procedural detective yarn. Well worth a read if you like this genre.

You should read her A book which comes before this one to catch all of the storyline. She does use crude language but overall the story is compelling and it's an interesting read. I'm currently reading through her whole series and it keeps you entertained.

This second book by Sue Grafton was exceptional as well. Very nicely written who-done-it that had me not wanting to put it down. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to try out the genre. I'm so happy I finally took a friends recommendation and began this series of books.

I figured the mystery out about two thirds through the book. From that point on I read, or skimmed through, the rest to see how it unfolded. I have not read these in order so the writing style is different from the last two I read. I found it silly at the end where it is"respectfully submitted" but maybe all the earlier books are like that, but it really cheapened an otherwise decent read.

Even though I figured it out fairly easily and the silly last sentence, it still deserves at least three stars, or three and a half because you do get a very good feel of the main character, how she thinks, feels, etc.

I have noticed a continuing theme in ALL of Grafton's books
She always has something to say about overweight people. It must be a personal problem she has.

Great book, great story filled with twists and turns.One death and possibly a second, but who did it and why? So many possibilities as you dig deeper into the book, and more clues that revlile other suspects. Cant wait to read the next book!

As another reviewer has said: Too many names, no identities. Completely unbelievable (the police, apparently, are morons) and not well written. I was hoping for better and now am not sure I want to investigate the alphabet any further.

I used to listen to the Alphabet series audio tapes traveling in the car with my dad. I liked them back then, though I probably didn't grasp much of the plot. I am taking the time now to read them in sequence since Sue Grafton is nearing completion of the alphabet. "B" is for Burglar has a lot of potential suspects and keeps you guessing.

I have become a Kinsey Millhone fan. After reading "V Is For Vengeance", I decided to start at the beginning and really get to know Kinsey; I'm glad I did! As the saying goes, "It's a good read," and the pages fly by. When I really like a book I might read it more than once, and I'm quite sure I'm going to do that with Sue Grafton's alphabet series.

Kinsey Millhone is onto something when she investigates a murder and a missing woman. What she finds is beyond what I guessed. I love Kinsey's character! She is such a confident, smart, and strong woman. I can't even wait to pick up the next. Book is full of mystery and suspence. I recommend it! It was better then the first.

Good to see the character development coming along. Fun to read about as time when phone books, typewriters and pay phones were dereguere. I grew up then so it isn't new but it is a good trip down memory lane.

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone novels , the entire alphabet, can always be depended upon to entertain. You just can't go wrong with these. If you read one and enjoy it, you know you'll enjoy all of them.