Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), May 20, 1989, p. 19

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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday May Page i Entertainment top mysteries By American Lihr is for Fugitive By Sub Holt 261 pages One of the popular series of novels in recent years is the alphabet mysteries starring plucky California sleuth Kinsey Mill hone The first was A is f With F is for I unlive author Sue Grafton has reached the sixth letter Her twice divorced oft died and distinctly investigator Millhone finds new wrinkles on an old crime and se aplenty in sleepy coastal town Floral Beach has a couple of places to eat a bar with a jukebox a few bikers and a 17 year old murder case that someone wants reopened The body of pregnant teen Jean Timncrlakc had been found on the town beach years ago Bailey Fowler her boyfriend was charged He copped a mans I winter pica one year busted of jail I was later recaptured Now his father ing of cancer hires Kmsey to clear his sons name is for Fugitive is one of the better mysteries to come along this year Grafton who has a light live touch is blessed with the gift of knowing the for the makings of a de concoction Her sleuth is plucky and funny not too blustenngly resourt without being comic book heroic and cynical without nto tired gumshoe disillusu Her settings are subtly The desolate town of functions every bit as as the authors characters the ciously pure school principal the dead girl nogond mother the lofty local doctor the other boyfriend and Bailey family depressed ail ing parents and a long suffering sister The sandy beach and the deadbeat bar Bailey s father hotel and Jeans mothers dive of a home all figure strongly All are made to merge with the characters to give this book a sad and haunted atmosphere If Grafton displays a weakness it is in the blurred rush at the novel s end Bailey second escape and the killing IS HERE RIVIERA CENTRE 530Gcielph Street PO Box LOP 0437 YELLOW CAB HALTON HILLS HOUR SERVICE SERVING HALTON HILLS 8732527 Cot of Mpl Ait ANY PIZZA OVER 9 FREE DELIVERY WITH MINIMUM ORDCR STREET 8734499 that precedes it are ob scure in the narrative The reader is left with the odd sensation that sleuth Millhone t done enough cerebral work to justify the sudden revelation of twisted desire and dark guilt Happily Sue Grafton has another opportunities to gel it perfect as op posed to her present state of near perfection The Mother Murders By Dale Gilbert St Martins 95 first met this unusual team in Gilberts earlier mys lery Hit 111 it k Star Murders For Malt Doyle does the bulk of the all of the shooting and lakes lime ff for the odd spot of romancing Hidden within a Southern mansion protected by his formidable reputation retired Secretary of State Carter in in IhL higher forms of thinking and the n shar worrying The often prickly relationship be tween the halves of this sleuthing team was cleverly blueprinted in the earlier work This time the author shifts through several gears The new VIDEO RANCH FIREWORK SPECIAL S Movies Saturday to Tuesday MACHINE RENTALS CAMCORDER VCR NINTENDO SSK 8730700 JOIN US FOR LUNCH DELI SANDWICHES SALADS Donute Baked Freeh Dally on Premise OPEN 24 Hours Georgetown 8731211 DBs PICK OF THE WEEK Tuesday A 11 Hnunl Thursday Friday 11009 00 232 STREET ST PLAZA GEORGETOWN Corner of Tend MounUlnvlew Rd 8731773 j TICKETS ON SALE AT CLOWNS ANIMALS AERIALISTS ACROBATS SHOW TIMES 3 30PM 7 00PM INFORMATION CIRC SPONSORED BY KIWANIS CLUB OF GEORGETOWN GORDON ALCOTT MEMORIAL ARENA SUNDAY MAY 28 1 989 ADMISSION PRICES ADULTS 8 00 CHILDREN 12 Under SENIORS 4 00 BOX OFFICE ON SHOWDAY style plotting is hectic but agreeably so with the cerebral Winfield allowed to reveal the warm heart behind his aloof manner and daunting Matt gel to show some more brainpower and an amazing capacity for surviving bloodshed What Matt Jails to uncover is the elusive secret partner in the drug business a young actressdirector killing for profit trust fund and all the classic poor little rich girl rea sons That mistake nearly costs Matt his lift although Carter is ultimately able to spot the twisted trail O ATTENTION NINTENDO SEGA PLAYERS We now have a used game exchange section Bring in your old Nintendo or Sega game and exchange for another game for just 1 0 00 8772254 1 0th LINE RIVER RD COUNTRY VIDEO GAMES Face in The Crowd GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 STREET 8731999 CINEMA 1 STARTS FRIDAY Evenings at 0091Spm Sat Sun Matinee at 2 p CINEMA 3 2nd GREAT WEEK W ft Evenings at 7 9 15 pm KEVIN CO Sun Matinee at 2 00 p m Dreams

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