D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton

 Still suffering from Covid AND laid up with a very painful left knee, I sought comfort in yet another lightweight mystery. It was not the most pleasant of milieus, however, and I was a little relieved to have it be done. This "deadbeat" is an alcoholic who killed people in a car crash. Kinsey's attempt to solve his murder by drowning when the police didn't even count it as a murder, took her into unsavory places and people. There is though, despite the seedy characters, Kinsey's usual humor and cynicism to enjoy. Her relationship with policeman Jonah Robb heats up, and she has a harrowing experience at the very end, at the top of a building trying to talk the murderer down. This is a story where her epilogues are too brief! I really wanted to know how she got down off that building. I wanted to know how the characters left behind dealt with this tragedy. But no, her epilogues are brief and to the point. They may be alluded to in the next installment, but maybe not. We shall see!