Book description
The nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton's ever popular 'alphabet' series
featuring PI Kinsey Millhone. Just after Independence Day in July 1953
Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Serena Station
Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen
again. Left behind is her young daughter, Daisy, and Violet's impetuous
husband, Foley, who had been persuaded to buy his errant wife the car
only days before . . . Now, thirty-five years later, Daisy wants
closure. Reluctant to open such an old cold case Kinsey Millhone agrees
to spend five days investigating, believing at first that Violet simply
moved on to pastures new. But very soon it becomes clear that a lot of
people shared a past with Violet, a past that some are still desperate
to keep hidden. And in a town as close-knit as Serena there aren't many
places to hide when things turn vicious . . .
Sue Grafton has become one of the most popular mystery writers both
here and in the US. Born in Kentucky in 1940, the daughter of the
mystery writer C. W. Grafton, she began her career as a TV
scriptwriter before Kinsey Millhone and the 'alphabet' series took
off. She lives and writes in Montecito, California, and Louisville,
Kentucky.
