Sue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with this twisting, complex #1 New York Times bestseller that draws private investigator Kinsey Millhone into a case shrouded in the sins of the past.Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone’s office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were … They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure. Now, all these years later, the long-forgotten events have come back to him—and he has pieced them together with news reports from the time, becoming convinced that he witnesses the burial of a kidnapped child.
Kinsey has nearly nothing to go on. Sutton doesn’t even know where he was that day—and, she soon discovers, he has a history of what might generously be called an active imagination. Despite her doubts, Kinsey sets out to track down the so-called burial site. And what’s found there pulls her into a hidden current of deceit stretching back more than twenty years…
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I live the Sue Graftin series and her central character, Kinsey Milhone! This story was a little different… the villains were revealed early on in the story. The suspense comes from the way Kinsey Milhone polls together the clues to solve the crime
I am so sorry we lost Sue Grafton. Her books are always a treat to read.
Sue Grafton has created the irrepressible character of Kinsey Milhone, a private detective who eats peanut butter and pickle sandwiches, and takes on cases that appear simple, but generally place her in some peril.
I have read all of her books that are in this series. I enjoyed them.