![]() ![]() Even as she pursues an intriguing investigation around a ten-year-old crime involving teens, drugs and murder, Ned Lowe’s “somewhere out there” presence casts a shadow over Kinsey’s days and nights. In Y Is for Yesterday, Kinsey’s daily three-mile jog is now interspersed with self-defense classes after a particularly painful tangle with one Ned Lowe, a sociopath who evaded capture in 2015’s X. Left to her own domestic devices, she comfort-reads Elmore Leonard and scoffs peanut-butter-and-pickle sandwiches. That circle of friends keeps Kinsey grounded-not to mention properly-fed-as she fights crime old-school style, immersing herself in the legwork, the surveillance and the research, hitting inevitable walls as she noses around in other people’s business and inevitably running into spots of life-threatening violence. ![]() From 1982’s A is For Alibi through to the just-published Y is for Yesterday, that’s 35 years of kicking back with some genuinely friendly, fiercely loyal people. ![]()
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