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Majority of Book Takes Place Outside Santa Teresa
F is for Fugitive has Kinsey living with Henry after a bomb blew her home up and left his main house slightly damaged. Kinsey is feeling hemmed in and takes a case that has her living with a family that hires her in Floral Beach. Kinsey is hired by the Fowler family to clear the son (Bailey) since his father doesn't believe Bailey killed his young girlfriend 17 years ago.
Having Kinsey in a new location could have been interesting, but I felt claustrophobic while reading this. The Fowler family was a mess. Time and time again I wondered how Kinsey didn't lose her mind. She barely has any contact with any of her friends from Santa Teresa so Kinsey is forced to make friends at Floral Beach. I was pretty annoyed that Grafton doesn't really let us get a good sense of Bailey. We have her interacting a lot with the other Fowler's though. And the dead girl (Jean Timberlake) I felt sorry for when you find out her history and how she was used by older men.
The town was really small too so Kinsey doesn't have that many suspects to choose from. Even when I read this years ago I guessed the killer just because it was the only person that made sense. I realize now that the culprit's motive is similar to the culprit in Q is for Quarry.
The writing was okay, but the ending was a let down. It just didn't make a lot of sense and the motive was lame as anything I thought. The flow was up and down due to some more deaths and an unexpected jail escape.
The ending has Kinsey glad to get out of Floral Beach and return to Henry.
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