It's like a mission for me to get through this alphabet series from Grafton. I suppose it's lucky for her that she crafted a decent character in Kinsey Millhone and has been able to capitalize on it.
This was a longer book than most of her alphabet so far (a-i) and I felt like it dragged on. She needs to keep it a bit shorter. Although since she's almost done with the entire alphabet I suppose that probably hasn't happened. Also in "J" Grafton decided to beef up the reader on California history in the areas of Santa Teresa and Perdido...sigh. It didn't add to the story and I think that history should add to the story not make it drag out.
In this book Kinsey is on the hunt for a "dead" man who doesn't seem to be dead after all. Her hunt takes her to Mexico and then back to her old stomping grounds. In the midst of searching out the "dead" man the reader does find out, along with Kinsey herself, about Kinsey's own family that she never knew she had. As usual Kinsey does things and discovers things that are slightly unrealistic but yet apparently believable enough since Grafton has made a fortune off of her character.