U Is for Undertow Sue Grafton | ISBN : 1-59413-418-9

U Is for Undertow

Author: Sue Grafton

Publisher: Thorndike Press

Publication Date: 13 December, 2010

ISBN: 9781594134180

Pages: 656

Subjects: Mystery

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-1-4104-2037-4 Trade Cloth, 978-0-399-15597-0 Trade Paper, 978-1-59413-418-0 E-Book - Adobe Ebook Reader, 978-1-101-15032-0

Description:

It's April, 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone's thirty-eighth birthday, and she's alone in her office doing 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 booze, but Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout. Twenty-one years earlier, a four-year-old girl disappeared. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinsey's help in locating the child's remains and finding the men who killed her. It's a long shot but he's willing to pay cash up front, and Kinsey agrees to give him one day.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2009-10-12

False memory syndrome provides the core of bestseller Grafton's intriguing 21st crime novel featuring wry PI Kinsey Millhone (after T Is for Trespass). In 1988, Kinsey takes on client Michael Sutton, who claims to have recovered a childhood memory of men burying a suspicious bundle shortly after the unsolved disappearance of four-year-old Mary Claire Fitzhugh in 1972. But Sutton has a track record of unreliability, and Kinsey must untangle and reconfigure his disjointed recountings to learn if they are truth or fiction. Chapters told from the point of view of other characters in other time periods add texture, allowing the reader to assemble pieces of the case as Kinsey works on other aspects. A subplot involves Kinsey wrestling with conflicting information about her estranged family. Though whodunit purists may be a bit disappointed that the culprit is revealed well before book's end, both loyal Kinsey fans and those new to the canon will find much to like. Author tour. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved