BOOK REPORT..."I"IS FOR INNOCENT

"I" is for Innocent - Sue Grafton

Product Description(Amazon.com)
Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a serious mistake), is trying to divest David Barney of the profits of that murder. But time is running out, and David Barney still swears he's innocent.
Patterned along the lines of a legal case, "I" Is For Innocent is seamlessly divided into thirds: one-third of the novel is devoted to the prosecution, one-third to the defense, and a final third to cross-examination and rebuttal. The result is a trial novel without a trial and a crime novel that resists solution right to the end.
When Kinsey Millhone agrees to take over Morley Shine's investigation, she thinks it is a simple matter of tying up the loose ends. Morley might have been careless about his health, but he was an old pro at the business. So it comes as a real shock when she finds his files in disarray, his key informant less than credible, and his witnesses denying ever having spoken with him. It comes as a bigger shock when she finds that every claim David Barney has made checks out. But if Barney didn't murder his wife, who did? It would seem the list of candidates is a long one. In life, Isabelle Barney had stepped on a lot of toes.
 Somewhere out there, a killer waits to see just what Kinsey will find out. Somewhere out there, someone's been getting away with murder, and this time it just might turn out to be Kinsey's.



MY THOUGHTS:  Kinsey is working on a 6 year old murder that the killer got acquitted for.   Is he guilty or innocent?  Kinsey has to find out.  The lawyer that hired her has given her information, but the PI that was working on the case dropped dead from a heart attack.  She starts with his files, but they are very disorganized,  so Kinsey starts sorting them out and finds some of them missing.  Kinsey starts with what she's got and moves on.  As the clues in info starts coming together, it's not looking good for the lawyer who hired her.  But what's this, maybe the PI's death wasn't a heart attack after all, MURDER, but who would kill him?  And Why?  Now that all the clues are coming together, Kinsey has figured it out, but the killer has lured her into a trap.  Can she get out or does she get killed?????  I give this book 5.....

This book is for 1 of my reading challenges.....
Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge