THE FINAL INSTALLMENT IN SUE GRAFTON'S ALPHABET SERIES
WINNER OF THE ANTHONY/BILL CRIDER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL IN A SERIES
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone confronts her darkest and most
disturbing case in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Sue
Grafton.
In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault
a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the
tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is
murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's
evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes
without a trace.
Now, it's 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been
released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual
prisoner of his ever-watchful parents--until a copy of the missing tape
arrives with a ransom demand. That's when the McCabes call Kinsey
Millhone for help. As she is drawn into their family drama, she keeps a
watchful eye on Fritz. But he's not the only one being haunted by the
past. A vicious sociopath with a grudge against Millhone may be leaving
traces of himself for her to find...