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. 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 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. As her investigation unfolds, she discovers Michael Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, he's the boy who cried wolf. Is his current story true or simply one more in a long line of fabrications?
My thoughts
Sue Grafton is back with another addition to her alphabet series of books involving PI Kinsey Millhone in U IS FOR UNDERTOW. Kinsey takes on the case of a young man who may or may not have seen the burial of a missing kidnapped girl when he was six years old. Bit Kinsey believes him and so do the police, until they find the body of a dead dog and not a dead girl. Hence, the case is closed. But Kinsey curiosity gets the bet of her and he continues to find out why a dog was buried there, which leads to more unanswered questions. I have enjoyed most the Kinsey Millhone mysteries and like this one to some extent. The bouncing back to the sixties in flashbacks was a little confusing, but the finale was too bland to make it an exciting mystery for me.
Note: This book was borrowed from my local library.
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