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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This was a good fast moving book. I always enjoy her books.
I loved the Alphabet Series of Sue Grafton. I am on my second read of the Series. I started back with “A” Sue Grafton is my favorite mystery writer!!!!
A s most of Sue Grafton’s novels, I really enjoyed reading this one. A much more intricate plot line(s) very entertaining and fast read
This is one of her best. Characters you can hate.
Terrific book love the action.
Love the character of Kinsey Milhone
Love all of her books.
I have to be reminded how good a writer Sue Grafton is. I could find my way around in her fictional coastal California town. She introduces scads of characters, yet when one appears later in the book, I have no trouble remembering his/her backstory. Her daily life, full of small details like where she ate and when she took time to write reports, gives the story a rhythm under the events of the plot. Finally, she knows when to break the rules, as in the ending of this book. Completely satisfying.
All Sue Grafton’s book are great.
Enjoyed this book as I have all of Grafton’s books
Typical Sue Grafton book. Entertaining but filled with a lot of fluff
Never met a Sue Grafton book I didn’t love!
I love all of Sue Grafton’s books!
Sue Grafton rocks, another great read from a great story teller.
this is not one of her best mystery-PI novels. I think she’d even say that. I’ve learned to read her novel’s probably more quickly than she intended. That is, I can skip through the minute details of her daily life — making coffee or licking a stamp or finding a parking place for a page or two or three. But when I see the end, the conclusion of a decent mystery story long before it comes, it’s tough to doff my hat to the author — and I’ve doffed on many other occasions.
I miss Sue Grafton. Her books were all wonderful
I love all the Kinsey Millhone stories and this one doesn’t disappoint. I love how Sue weaves several stories into one. It’s like reading several different stories within one that all comes together in the end. I highly recommend.
Another great book and we are running out of letters of the alphabet
Totally what I expected and I enjoyed it thoroughly!
Language too crude for me. Story was good and kept you interested. I love all the established characters but just couldn’t stay interested in this one