Sue Grafton is slowly but surely making her way through the alphabet with her latest - "U is for Undertow". This makes the 21st book featuring Kinsey Milhone ,the smart and feisty female private investigator.
Kinsey is visited by a young man, Michael Sutton, who thinks he might have witnessed an event involving a crime perpertrated some twenty years earlier. As a small boy, Michael is convinced he saw men burying a body near a home he was visiting. The time-line coincides with the disappearance of a four-year-old girl, Mary Claire Fitzhugh, who was never found. Michael is so certain his memory has something to do with the death of Mary Claire, he is willing to fork over cash so Kinsey will investigate.
Kinsey reluctantly takes the case, and eventually the police take her and Michael seriously enough to dig up what appears to be an old grave, only to discover the carcass of.....a dog!
When it begins to look like Michael's memories might not be so clear, he is brutally murdered. Kinsey now puts all her effort into following a strange set of clues leading back to dogs, babies and weird hippies.
Kinsey is at her best carefully solving this "cold case". The set of suspects from the past keep her on her toes trying to determine who is still around that would kill to protect their long-kept secrets.
Sue Grafton fans may begin to worry that Kinsey may be killed off when the "Z" book is published. Hopefully not, as Kinsey has entertained her readers for years with her unique method of sleuthing. Only time will tell!
Grafton readers won't need to be encouraged to read this latest Kinsey Milhone tale. If you haven't ever read Grafton, start with "A is for Alibi" and enjoy a year's worth of fun detecting. On a scale of 1 to 10, I rate this latest a 7.
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