Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (December 2009)

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It’s April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone’s thirty-eighth birthday, and she’s alone in her office catching up on paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout. More than two decades ago, a four-year-old girl disappeared, and a recent newspaper story about her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial and could identify the killers if he saw them again. He wants Kinsey’s help in locating the grave and finding the men. It’s way more than a long shot, but he’s persistent and willing to pay cash up front. Reluctantly, Kinsey agrees to give him one day of her time.

But it isn’t long before she discovers Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, he’s the boy who cried wolf. Is his story true, or simply one more in a long line of fabrications?

Moving effortlessly between the 1980s and the 1960s, and changing points of view as Kinsey pursues witnesses whose accounts often clash. Gradually, we come to see how everything connects in this twisting, complex, surprise-filled thriller. And as always, at the beating heart of her fiction is Kinsey Millhone, a sharp-tongued, observant loner who never forgets that under the thin veneer of civility is a roiling dark side to the soul.

About the Author: Sue Grafton first introduced Kinsey Millhone in the Alphabet Series in 1982 and since then, both writer and heroine have become icons. Ms. Grafton is a writer who consistently breaks the bonds of genre while never writing the same book twice. Ms. Grafton is also a fan of her work on audio, saying that she's "acquired hundreds of new converts to the books from people who hear them first on cd." She continued to say that audiobooks are a "wonderful form of literary cross-pollination and a great way to expand the audience for this series." Ms. Grafton lives in Montecito, California, and Louisville, Kentucky.

About the Performer: Judy Kaye, a renowned theater and television star, is the unforgettable voice for Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, the heroine in Ms. Grafton's chart-topping Alphabet series. AudioFile hails "Judy Kaye is simply Kinsey Millhone." Ms. Kaye has made her mark on Broadway, receiving numerous awards and accolades, including the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in The Phantom of the Opera. She also created the role of Emma Goldman in Ragtime for which she received an Ovation award in Los Angeles. Other major New York appearances include The Pajama Game, Brigadoon at New York City Opera, and the New York premiere of Desire Under the Elms.