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U is for Undertow - Sue Grafton
U is for Undertow
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Calling T is for Trespass “taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific,” USA Today went on to ask, “What does it take to write twenty novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?” It’s a question worth pondering. Through twenty excursions into... show more
Calling T is for Trespass “taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific,” USA Today went on to ask, “What does it take to write twenty novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?” It’s a question worth pondering. Through twenty excursions into the dark side of the human soul, Sue Grafton has never written the same book twice. And so it is with this, her twenty-first. Once again, she breaks genre formulas, giving us a twisting, complex, surprise-filled, and totally satisfying thriller. 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? Grafton moves the narrative between the eighties and the sixties, changing points of view, building multiple subplots, and creating memorable characters. Gradually, we see how they all connect. But at the beating center of the novel is Kinsey Millhone, sharp- tongued, observant, a loner—“a heroine,” said The New York Times Book Review, “with foibles you can laugh at and faults you can forgive.”
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780399155970 (039915597X)
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Series: Kinsey Millhone (#21)
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Reading Slothfully
Reading Slothfully rated it
4.0 U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone, #21)
For a short time at the beginning of this book, I was wondering why I'd decided to revisit Kinsey Millhone quite so quickly. Then the story drew me in and I found it a compellingly GoodRead. Kinsey is visited by a young man, Michael Sutton, who claims to have suddenly remembered, after reading a st...
DanySpike
DanySpike rated it
3.0 U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone #21) - Sue Grafton
Michael Sutton hires Kinsey because 20 years ago a four-year-old disappeared and he thinks that as a kid he inadvertently saw where the little girl was buried. The problem is, he can't be sure where it was, and what's even worse, Michael has a strange relationship with the truth. Did he really see s...
The Butler Did It
The Butler Did It rated it
5.0 Ms. Grafton keeps getting better at what she does
U is for Undertow revisits the technique used in S is for Silence, namely, mixing Kinsey's current day narration with the narrative of the past. This is a technique that works well for Grafton.Kinsey is hired by a young man who's memory has been sparked by an article he reads in the paper about an ...
Barbara's Booky Blog
Barbara's Booky Blog rated it
3.0
I usually love these books but I found this one to be incredibly boring. Sue Grafton is overly descriptive of every little thing. For example, one of the villains wastes time in a quick mart and she describes every single thing on the shelves. Why? Does the author think that the readers have never ...
Nutti's muses
Nutti's muses rated it
4.0 U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)
Another Sue Grafton classic, the year is 1988 & Kinsey has a case involving a child kidnapping from 1967 where the child never went home. Kinsey learns more secrets from her family's past and more about her childhood than she knew before.
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