Authors do change styles if they write many books. Nobody can ever keep and retain the same running style unless they have a map so to speak to make certain that they follow the same plot devices in each and every novel. So Kinsey Millhone in the 22nd novel is not the same as Kinsey Millhone in the first novel.
In one of Sue Graftson's novels, she had me in such suspense I could barely get through the end of the novel it was so hairraising. She no longer employs that hold on to your seat as she tries to take you over the edge. In this novel at which we know in the beginning that our heroine Millhone survives another assault to her person, we go at a relaxed pace to unravel the mystery that compels us to read from start to finish. This is a very interesting love story, and expose of shoplifting rings so that it is a character development more than a suspense story. I enjoyed reading it, but did wonder at how many of Kinsey's dreadful sandwiches we are going to have to suffer through while she wiles away her time in the backseat of a car watching traffic pass by slowly. This is a slow reading and very slow developing storyline.
However sympathetic Sue Grafton may be to mafia figures is really unknown but it would appear that she sees that there is redemption for some of them, while others are simply too evil to do anything but kill off.
In the Exodus Quest, we had to deal with a crazed preacherman who thinks he is doing the Lord's will as he tries to steal artifacts from a site that is little known to any but a few. Our hero who is a carry over from the search for Alexander's tomb has now taken a spin to go to another long studied site in Egypt, the gravesite of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Here we encounter murderous corrupt park police and scared followers, and naturally, the fictitious place of the Cave of Treasures. He is trying to save his partner and the couple she is guiding to the wondrous site of the sungod. Because she and her companions have happened upon another one of those unknown but highly desirable tombs she triggers the hatred of an Egyptian policeman who wants to steal the treasure for himself to achieve fame and fortune. During all this we eventually learn why it is that Akhenaten may have actually become Moses and led his people or followers to the promised land, a very intriguing but farfetched story of a strange pharaoh who is arguably not even close to being like Moses. However, we finally learn how the Moses story may be based upon the Alexander story (something we learned in the Alexander Cipher as well) and how all this old patriarchs all may be a plausible answer to the stories in the Old Testament, all being Akhenaten after all. That includes Noah and the Ark as it is Akhenaten who gathered all the beasts of the world to happen to be in one place at one time when a great flood occurred. It all makes rambling sense but gets naturally poohpoohed away as a half cocked idea in the end.
Wonder where Will Adams will take us next? He does manage to save two of the three who were caught in a flood as well. So it goes...interesting stories...hope that this is not too bad a spoiler but I sincerely doubt that many will read these tales of antiquity.
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