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U Is for Undertow (Hardcover)

By: Sue Grafton (Author)

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Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a 4-year-old girl who disappeared more than 20 years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of 6. By the best-selling author of T is for Trespass.

C alling "T is for Trespass" ataut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific, a USA Today went on to ask, aWhat does it take to write twenty novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?a Itas a question worth pondering. Through twenty excursions into the dark side of the human soul, Sue Grafton has never written the same book twice. And so it is with this, her twenty-first. Once again, she breaks genre formulas, giving us a twisting, complex, surprise-filled, and totally satisfying thriller.
Itas April, 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhoneas thirty-eighth birthday, and sheas alone in her office doing paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. He has a preppy air about him and looks as if head 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. A recent reference to her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinseyas help in locating the childas remains and finding the men who killed her. Itas a long shot but heas willing to pay cash up front, and Kinsey agrees to give him one day. As her investigation unfolds, she discovers Michael Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, heas the boy who cried wolf. Is his current story true or simply one more in a long line of fabrications?
Grafton moves the narrative between the eighties and the sixties, changing points of view, building multiple subplots, and creating memorable characters. Gradually, we see how they all connect. But at the beating center of the novel is Kinsey Millhone, sharp-tongued, observant, a loneraaa heroine, a said "The New York Times Book Review," awith foibles you can laugh at and faults you can forgive.a

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When an innocent looking young man walks into her office unannounced, PI Kinsey Millhone cannot imagine what kind of trouble he could be in. Turns out the clean-cut Michael Sutton is older than he looks and is suffering from a resurrected past traumatic memory. When he was only six years old he believes he stumbled across the burial of an even younger little girl, who had gone missing and who--20-something years later--was still an open missing-person case. Michael asks Millhone to investigate. Quickly, however, Millhone, who's fast-approaching her 38th birthday and has been in this line of business long enough to know when the pieces don't fit together, begins to suspect that Michael's not exactly telling her the full truth. This is Sue Grafton's 21st addition to her Alphabet Series, and yet it reads with as much energy and freshness as brand-new series. Full of all the fun that readers have come to expect, U FOR UNDERTOW dishes up a satisfying Grafton-Millhone serving of surprises and suspense.

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