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 so-called burial site. And what's found there
pulls her into a hidden current of deceit stretching back more than
twenty years...