O is for Outlaw

A Kinsey Millhone Mystery

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. The weekend before, he'd bought a stack of cardboard boxes. In one, there was a collection of childhood memorabilia with Kinsey's name all over it.

Though she's never been one for personal possessions, curiosity is a powerful force. What she finds among the items is an old undelivered letter to her that will force her to reexamine her beliefs about the breakup of her first marriage...about the honor of her first husband...and about an old unsolved murder. It will put her life in the gravest peril.

Through 14 books, listeners have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone's past: a morsel here, a dollop there. You know about the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one has remained a blip on the screen. Until now. "O" Is for Outlaw is a revealing excursion into Kinsey's past.

©199 9 (P)1999 Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

• Romantic Times Award Winner - Best PI Novel, 1999

"Grafton works with a cinematic eye, possessing a keen visual sense of detail, color, and style. The pace is fast, the crime difficult to solve." (People)

Love, love Kinsey

The narrator makess a great book even better. She has done them alll so far so it would be weird to hear someone else. When I read the alphabet books I hear Judy's voice in my head.

O is for Outstanding of Sue Grafton and Judy Kaye

Sue Grafton never disappoints in her storytelling and spinning a yarn of details and puzzles in her mysteries and thrillers. She keeps me hanging on to the end. I'm figuring the clues right along with Kennsey Milhone. Judy Kaye is great in narrating all Sue's ABC books. Judy is the voice of Kennsey for certain.

What happened to Mary?

Ohhhhh noooo. The sudden change in readers threw me off. I had a vision of what Kinsey and Henry looked like in my mind. Now its messed up.

I will still give it a go and hope it turns out for the better.

Great book!

Sue Grafton has done it again. Another great novel! Looking forward to the next one. One of my very favorite authors.

Did not like the narrator

The stories are brilliant, but this narrator just isn’t Kinsey. It’s turned into an uninteresting boring story.

Love new narrator

I love the switch up of the narrator. It’s so much more entertaining this way I wish they can go back and change the others.

Not Mary Pfeiffer

I love Sue Grafton so will give an overall 4 star rating. However, after A-N being narrated by Mary Pfeiffer, I was disappointed in Judy Kaye’s narration. If I hadn’t already purchased the remaining letters I probably wouldn’t have. Judy Kaye has odd inflections and unneeded “dramatic pauses” which, in my opinion, detract from the story not add to it. Additionally, the “voice” she uses for Henry sounds like a doddering 90 year old woman and not what I imagine healthy and robust Henry would sound like. Further, this voice of Henry sounds nothing like Pfeiffer’s narration which is off putting. Kaye’s voice for Kinsey when she is speaking is also often squeaky and annoying, again nothing like Kinsey. Because I have the remaining novels, I will continue to listen. And, because they are already recorded, I know nothing will change. However, I am sad. With the loss of Sue Grafton I was hoping to reconnect in a different way and rather appreciated Pfeiffer’s narration! It felt right!

Finally, I could care less about the music at the beginning and end of the book.

One of Grafton's best! Fantastic ending

This is Judy Kaye's first in the series as narrator. She is remarkable. This story reveals much about the depth of character that is Kinsey. It also has a very unique twist reflecting some of the history that surrounds the era in which Kinsey lives. A real 5 star read and listen. I am sorry to have finished it ...for the fourth time!

WOW!

Another excellent read from Sue Grafton. I only wish is that Kinzie could have caught a break on this one, don't understand why it couldn't have ended in a high note.

Loved this latest instalment

This has been one of my favourites in the series so far. Great plot line with interesting twists and turns.
New narrator was a good choice as she has a voice very similar to Mary Pfeifer so not too much of an adjustment. Only critical comment is that her "Henry" voice changes the nature of his character from a roguish elderly bachelor to that of a sweet doddering neighbor- I didn't like this, but as he's a sun-character it's not that big a deal. Overall I loved the book and definitely recommend it to fans of Kinsey.