Review #44
Main character: Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone in 1988
A young man shows up at Kinsey's office one afternoon, claiming to have suddenly recalled details from his childhood concerning an unsolved kidnapping…20 years ago! Michael Sutton says he has recovered a childhood memory of men burying a suspicious bundle shortly after the unsolved disappearance of four-year-old Mary Claire Fitzhugh in 1967. He was 6 years old at the time.
Kinsey is skeptical but agrees to work for one day on the cold case. Even though it becomes evident that Sutton has a track record of unreliability, Kinsey becomes intrigued with the cold case and continues to investigate on her own. And so it begins. The story unfolds as the narrative and point of view weaves between events and characters in the 1980s and the 1960s. Due to this, the reader comes to know the perpetrators before the end of the story, (not one of my favorite events) but, It is not until the final pages that everything connects.
A subplot involves Kinsey wrestling with conflicting information about her estranged family.
This was a very different looking Kinsey Millhone adventure. There was very little lightness in it…very little of Kinsey’s personal life and I missed Kinsey’s elderly friend and landlord, Henry and his family. There were only a couple of mentions of them and it was done as if not to leave them out all together. It is a good book but, not what I expected or looked forward to.
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