U is for undertow / Sue Grafton.
Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
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 secret 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. 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?
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- ISBN: 039915597X (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780425238110 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780399155970 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 403 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009.
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Target Audience Note: | All Ages. |
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Subject: | Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Women private investigators > California > Fiction. Girls > Crimes against > Fiction. Murder Investigations > Fiction |
Genre: | Mystery fiction. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. |
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