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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-10039915597X

ISBN-139780399155970

eBay Product ID (ePID)28038306497

Product Key Features

Book TitleU Is for Undertow

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Publication Year2009

GenreFiction

AuthorSue Grafton

Book SeriesA Kinsey Millhone Novel Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight24.1 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-024533

Reviews"As this master of suspense continues to demonstrate in superb mystery after mystery, there are more ugly twists in the human heart than there are letters in the alphabet." - Entertainment Weekly "It's as if Grafton purposely begins with a standard situation-and then gleefully sets about breaking every cardinal rule of the mystery novel." - Los Angeles Times Book Review, Praise for U is for Undertow "Has this reliable series lost its addictive appeal? Not at all."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Arresting prose...[a] brilliantly inventive novel."-- Richmond Times-Dispatch "Makes me wish there were more than twenty-six letters at her disposal."--Maureen Corrian, NPR.org "Her most structurally complex, psychologically potent book to date."-- Los Angeles Times More Praise for Sue Grafton and the Alphabet Series "I'm going to miss Kinsey Millhone. Ever since the first of Sue Grafton's Alphabet mysteries, A Is For Alibi , came out in 1982, Kinsey has been a good friend and the very model of an independent woman, a gutsy Californian P.I. rocking a traditional man's job...it's Kinsey herself who keeps this series so warm and welcoming. She's smart, she's resourceful, and she's tough enough to be sensitive on the right occasions."-- New York Times Book Review "The consistent quality and skillful innovations in this alphabet series justify all the praise these books have received over the past 35 years."-- Wall Street Journal "A superb storyteller."-- Publishers Weekly "Grafton's endless resourcefulness in varying her pitches in this landmark series, graced by her trademark self-deprecating humor, is one of the seven wonders of the genre."-- Kirkus Reviews "Grafton is a writer of many strengths--crisp characterizations, deft plotting, and eloquent dialogue among them--and she has kept her long-running alphabet mystery series fresh and each new release more welcome than the last."-- Louisville Courier-Journal "[Grafton's] ability to give equal weight to the story of the detective and the detective story sets her apart in the world of crime fiction."-- Richmond Times-Dispatch, "As this master of suspense continues to demonstrate in superb mystery after mystery, there are more ugly twists in the human heart than there are letters in the alphabet." -- Entertainment Weekly "It's as if Grafton purposely begins with a standard situation--and then gleefully sets about breaking every cardinal rule of the mystery novel." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review, "As this master of suspense continues to demonstrate in superb mystery after mystery, there are more ugly twists in the human heart than there are letters in the alphabet." -Entertainment Weekly "It's as if Grafton purposely begins with a standard situation-and then gleefully sets about breaking every cardinal rule of the mystery novel." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Series Volume Number21

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisSue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with this twisting, complex #1 New York Times bestseller that draws private investigator Kinsey Millhone into a case shrouded in the sins of the past. Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone's office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure. Now, all these years later, the long-forgotten events have come back to him--and he has pieced them together with news reports from the time, becoming convinced that he witnesses the burial of a kidnapped child. Kinsey has nearly nothing to go on. Sutton doesn't even know where he was that day--and, she soon discovers, he has a history of what might generously be called an active imagination. Despite her doubts, Kinsey sets out to track down the so-called burial site. And what's found there pulls her into a hidden current of deceit stretching back more than twenty years...

LC Classification NumberPS3557.R13U3 2009