Book description
She was a 'Jane Doe', an unidentified white female whose decomposed
body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case
fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives
had little to go on, and after months of investigation, the murder
remained unsolved.
That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body, both
nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot
at the case . . . and they turn to Kinsey Millhone to help them find
closure. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what
begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk
hunt for her killer.
Based on an unsolved homicide that occured in 1969, Q is for Quarry
and Grafton's interest in the case have renewed police efforts. The
body has been exhumed, and a facial reconstruction made that appears in
the last pages of the novel. It is hoped that the photograph will
trigger memories that may lead to a positive identification. 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.
