Though it’s Sue Grafton’s twenty first book about the same character, Kinsey Millhone, she succeeded in creating not a repetition, but again new, refreshing novel, it is not the same as the previous stories, so you will not be bored. One thing remains the same – Kinsey is still witty and smart woman, who always knows what to say, at whose jokes you laugh and whose failures you can forgive.
Welcome to another journey into the darkness of human soul! One evening not a long time before Kinsey Millhone’s thirty-eighth birthday she was sitting late in the office with the paperwork. Suddenly someone knocked at the door. She was not waiting for anyone, who can it be? Michael Sutton looked like a schoolboy, if he tried to buy a drink, salesman in the shop might not believe he is of the right age, so thought Kinsey… but he was twenty seven, an unemployed young man who wanted Millhone’s help. The thing was that twenty one year ago a small girl had been kidnapped. Not a long time ago this story came to the scene again and arose some memories in Michael. He thought that being six he found her lonely burial… Now he wanted Kindsey to help him to find her grave as well as the villain who did that. That was a thing to think about, but Michael agreed to pay in advance, so she decided to devote one day to it. Discovering thing after thing, clue after a clue, she realized Sutton used to cry wolf often and now she had to find out if this case was one of such examples.
As the story unfolds, we shift between times, points of views and plots to later see them coming into one union. One more captivating and mysterious thriller of Sue Grafton!