U is for Undertow [Paperback]

Sue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with this twisting, complex #1New York Timesbestseller that draws private investigator Kinsey Millhone into a case shrouded in the sins of the past.

Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone's office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure. Now, all these years later, the long-forgotten events have come back to him—and he has pieced them together with news reports from the time, becoming convinced that he witnesses the burial of a kidnapped child.

Kinsey has nearly nothing to go on. Sutton doesn't even know where he was that day—and, she soon discovers, he has a history of what might generously be called an active imagination. Despite her doubts, Kinsey sets out to track down the so-called burial site. And what's found there pulls her into a hidden current of deceit stretching back more than twenty years...Praise forU is for Undertow

“Has this reliable series lost its addictive appeal? Not at all.”—Marilyn Stasio,The New York Times Book Review

“Arresting prose...[a] brilliantly inventive novel.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

“Makes me wish there were more than twenty-six letters at her disposal.”—Maureen Corrian, NPR.org

“Her most structurally complex, psychologically potent book to date.”—Los Angeles Times

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“I’m going to miss Kinsey Millhone. Ever since the first of Sue Grafton’s Alphabet mysteries, A Is For Alibi, came out in 1982, Kinsey has been a good friend and the very model of an independent woman, a gutsy Californian P.I. rocking a traditional man’s job...it’s Kinsey herself who keeps thisl£K