Saturday, October 28, 2017

T is for TRESPÅSS by Sue Grafton ****

Kinsey Millhone has a few things she's dealing with. One is that she has to serve a cease and desist order to someone to vacate an apartment and of course at the end she never finds them cuz they've run out and tear the place apart before they go.

Also her neighbor is a frail old guy who dislocates his shoulder and needs a companion. The niece is in a big hurry and hires the first idiot to apply but this wasn't your garden variety idiot. This one had stolen someone else's name and copied her personal info from the last job because she thought they looked similar and she got away with it for almost a year nearly robbing the old guy blind, her nasty adult son unable to speak clearly probably has autism beats the old man.

The woman Solana finds and sells his dead wife's jewelry, robs his savings account, pays herself in the thousands of dollars and has "someone else" in charge of his estate which was just an alias she's used before. The aunt asked Kinsey to "check out the references" of the hired LVN who wasn't even an LVN she was nothing but a maid previously. Kinsey drops the ball and only searches so far then quits which was all the niece wanted but crap she's a PI and couldn't go out of her way for a neighbor by doing a better job of seeing he was taken care of. Every time she  tries to visit him, Solana says he's sleeping, he's tired, he doesn't want to see her and STILL DOESN"T CATCH ON. She really doesn't care about this neighbor as much as she thinks. Like watching your neighbor's dog out in the winter snow and 30 below zero and you just say "poor dog" instead of calling a cop or ACO.


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