Sue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with this twisting, complex #1 New York Times bestseller 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...
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Grafton är en bra mycket bättre författare nu än när hon började på alfabetsserien. Boken är svår att lägga ifrån sig, karaktärerna har djup och historien drivs stadigt framåt. Olika kapitel skrivs från olika karaktärers utgångspunkt, ibland i olika tidsperioder, men i stället för att göra historien rörig är det boken styrka. Fokuset ligger inte på själva deckarbiten utan berättelsen i sig. Läsvärd!
