Author: Sue Grafton Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Crime
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ISBNs: 9780399575228 0399575227 |
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It's April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone's thirty-eighth birthday, and she's alone in her office catching up on paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. He has a preppy air about him and looks as if he'd be carded if he tried to buy a beer, but Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout. More than two decades ago, a four-year-old girl disappeared, and a recent newspaper story about her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial and could identify the killers if he saw them again. He wants Kinsey's help in locating the grave and finding the men. It's way more than a long shot, but he's persistent and willing to pay cash up front. Reluctantly, Kinsey agrees to give him one day of her time.
But it isn't long before she discovers Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, he's the boy who cried wolf. Is his story true, or simply one more in a long line of fabrications?
Moving between the 1980s and the 1960s, and changing points of view as Kinsey pursues witnesses whose accounts often clash, Grafton builds multiple subplots and memorable characters. Gradually we see how everything connects in this thriller. And as always, at the heart of her fiction is Kinsey Millhone, a sharp-tongued, observant loner who never forgets that under the thin veneer of civility is a roiling dark side to the soul
This book is part of the "Kinsey Millhone" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "X" First published in 2015 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "W is for Wasted" First published in 2013 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "V is for Vengeance" First published in 2011 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "T is for Trespass" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "S is for Silence" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "R is for Ricochet" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Q is for Quarry" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "P is for Peril" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "O is for Outlaw" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "N is for Noose" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "M is for Malice" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "L is for Lawless" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "K is for Killer" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "J is for Judgment" First published in 1993 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "I is for Innocent" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "H is for Homicide" First published in 1991 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "G is for Gumshoe" First published in 1990 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Kinsey and Me" First published in 1990 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "F is for Fugitive" First published in 1989 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "E is for Evidence" First published in 1988 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "D is for Deadbeat" First published in 1987 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "C is for Corpse" First published in 1986 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "B is for Burglar" First published in 1985 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Is for Alibi" First published in 1982 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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