Meanwhile, closer to home, an aged and querulous couple move in next door to Henry, who is busy adjusting his home and garden to best tolerate encroaching drought conditions. Her charmed - and charming - circle of longstanding supporters includes landlord and octogenarian extraordinaire Henry Pitts bar owner and purveyor of Hungarian goulash and chilled glasses of chardonnay Rosie and on-again, off-again lover Robert Dietz (at the moment, he and Kinsey are just months shy of celebrating their “sixth anniversary of hardly ever seeing each other.”) Good-guy cops - and former Kinsey lovers - Cheney Phillips and Jonah Robb also make an appearance in her latest adventure, but the most significant recurring character in “X,’’ Grafton’s 24th novel, isn’t even alive: Down-on-his-luck private eye Pete Wolinksy died back in “W Is for Wasted,” but is still making his presence acutely and irrefutably felt. Laurie Robertsĭirect in manner and quick to turn up the crankiness volume in any given situation, Sue Grafton’s astute, determined, and fiercely independent Kinsey Millhone has become a familiar pleasure since her “A Is for Alibi” debut in 1982. Sue Grafton is nearing the end of her alphabetically-framed series.

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