S is For Silence by Sue Grafton

Latest in Kinsey Milhone alphabet series…. I haven't read her for almost 10 years I think. I actually just found an old startup book journal from 2001 with the last two alphas I read, stopping somewhere around J I think. In this one, she does the complex, interwoven past/present plot exposition. Trying to solve a disappearance / potential murder of a woman in a small town. Seems that almost everyone could be a suspect, or have knowledge of what really happened at the time of the crime 30 years earlier. She weaves the current day detective work of series start P I Kinsey Milhone with intermittent chapters through the time machine back to the few days prior to the disappearance. Each flashback is from the point of view of a different character who could potentially have a motive and the opportunity to either murder the victim, or run off with her. Like a couple Agatha Christie novels, so many people seem likely that you start to wonder if several of them had a hand in it. As it turns out, several folks were quiet because they were covering up other deep, dark problems. If you like this series, or the concept of a pretty good female detective story, the alpha books from Grafton are okay. This one is better than the average of her work. Ultimately, an escape for the weekend, or airplane read.