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U Is for Undertow Free FREE U IS FOR UNDERTOW PDF Sue Grafton | 496 pages | 06 Dec 2012 | Pan MacMillan | 9781447212423 | English | London, United Kingdom ​U is for Undertow on Apple Books Look Inside. Jun 12, Minutes Buy. Dec 01, Minutes Buy. Sue 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. 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. Despite her doubts, Kinsey U is for Undertow out to track down the so-called burial site. 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 U is for Undertow. Reluctantly, Kinsey agrees to give him one day of her time. Is his story true, or simply one more in a long line of fabrications? Moving effortlessly between the s and the s, and changing points of view as Kinsey pursues witnesses whose accounts often clash. Gradually, U is for Undertow 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 U is for Undertow is a roiling dark side to the soul. Gradually, we come to see how everything connects in this twisting, complex, surprise-filled thriller. Grafton is a writer who consistently breaks the bonds of genre while… More about Sue Grafton. Not at all. When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. Read An Excerpt. Mar 01, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Dec 01, ISBN Available from:. Audiobook Download. Paperback —. Add to Cart Add to Cart. About U is for Undertow Sue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with U is for Undertow twisting, complex 1 New York Times bestseller that draws private U is for Undertow Kinsey Millhone into a case shrouded in the sins of the past. Listen to a sample from U is for Undertow. Also in A Kinsey Millhone Novel. Also by Sue Grafton. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Related Articles. Looking for More Great Reads? Download Hi Res. LitFlash The eBooks you want at the lowest prices. Read it Forward Read it first. Pass it on! Stay in Touch Sign up. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later. Become a Member Start earning points for buying books! U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton: | : Books The novel, set infinds Kinsey investigating the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl in and the narrative weaves between both time periods. In AprilKinsey Millhone is hired by a young man named Michael Sutton to investigate a memory that he claims to have recovered of two people burying a body in the woods in the exclusive Horton Ravine neighborhood inwhen he turned six years old. She was never found. Although Michael's memory is hazy, he and Kinsey manage to locate the spot of the burial, but a police dig uncovers only the body of a wolfdog named Ulf. U is for Undertow of the bystanders watching the dig, a banker named Walker McNally, who was a high school classmate of Kinsey, spends the entire weekend drinking and kills a young woman in U is for Undertow DUI on Sunday night. Kinsey learns U is for Undertow Sutton was involved in a past U is for Undertow recovered memory " event that proved false, while greatly disrupting his family. Bothered by this, Kinsey traces the dogtag back to the dog's owner, who told her that the dog had been euthanized around that time. No one has any idea how the remains ended up in Horton Ravine. A parallel story set in the s is initially told from the viewpoint of Deborah Unruh, Rain's grandmother. Greg, the Unruhs' son, returned home with his pregnant girlfriend Shelly after dropping out of college in Five days after she gave birth to their daughter Rain, they left, leaving the baby behind. Two years later, the Unruhs formally adopted Rain. Greg and Shelly left unexpectedly not long thereafter. Almost immediately after they left, Rain was kidnapped. However, Kinsey learns that Greg and Shelly had hurriedly fled the area because the Selective Service had been tipped off to draft dodger Greg's location, ruling them out as suspects. Michael's family finds evidence that the date Michael claimed to see the burial was a week earlier, making it prior to Mary Claire's kidnapping, discrediting Michael and U is for Undertow Kinsey at a dead end. In another set of flashbacks, the story of the successful writer Jon Corso, U is for Undertow best friend in high school, is told. Walker and Jon became friends with Greg and Shelly during their second visit, and Jon started an intense sexual affair with Shelly. Shelly told U is for Undertow her plan to kidnap Rain for ransom, but Jon decided to implement the plan on his own so that he and Walker could afford their own apartment when they started college in the fall. Walker, in fact, was the person who tipped off the draft board about Greg. Jon and Walker buried the ransom money after realizing it was marked; but they moved the money and substituted the dog after being seen, to make their digging look harmless. Still U is for Undertow money after burying Rain's ransom, they kidnapped Mary Claire; but she died from an allergic reaction to Valiumwhich they used to keep her sedated during her kidnapping. Michael calls Kinsey to U is for Undertow her, since no one else believes him any longer. Panicked by his role in two deaths the "undertow" of the titleWalker calls Jon and says he is going to turn himself in for the kidnapping, despite the lack of evidence. Jon talks him into a small delay and then shoots and kills Michael. Since Walker has an airtight alibi for the time of the killing, Kinsey immediately suspects Jon due to their close friendship in high school. She heads to Jon's house, where she sees him leaving with suitcases, and follows him to a secluded meeting with Walker. Jon's plan to murder Walker and flee the country is foiled by Kinsey, who shoots him after he pulls a gun on her; and both Jon and Walker are arrested. Mary Claire's body and the marked money are both recovered on Jon's family's property. In a side story, Kinsey is invited to a family event. During the preparation for the event, which Kinsey resists attending, she is given letters from her grandmother that her Aunt Gin, who raised her, had refused. She learns that, far from ignoring her, her grandmother had wanted to adopt her after her parents' deaths and had even hired a private investigator to gain custody of her. In a final irony, she learns that Gin and the private investigator had had an affair and that little Kinsey had gone U is for Undertow outings with them. In the end, she attends the family event, where U is for Undertow grandmother, who is increasingly senile, mistakes her for her late mother and tells her how happy she would be if Kinsey were to come visit her. Sarah Weinman of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Grafton "has produced a better book each time out, and "U" is her most structurally complex, psychologically potent book to date. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. U is for Undertow New York Times. Retrieved December 27, Los Angeles Times. USA Today. Retrieved October 29, New York Times. December 11, Retrieved October 28, Publishers Weekly. December 14, Retrieved December 28, Palm Beach Post. December 13, Archived from the original on January 3, Sue Grafton. Lolly-Madonna XXX film. Putnam's Sons books. Hidden categories: All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from January Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. First edition cover. Putnam's Sons. U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone, #21) by Sue Grafton Sign up for our newsletters! Critics and new fans alike recognized her as a force to be reckoned with. Following three rather dark, personally introspective novels in which Kinsey encounters personal demons and truly evil adversaries, this new entry U is for Undertow a more philosophical and historical note. Kinsey, now a U is for Undertow private detective, has miraculously aged only five years, and it is now in her world. As the novel opens, an emotionally fragile young man walks into her office with an unusual tale. An article in a local newspaper about the disappearance of a little girl 21 years earlier has triggered a memory of something he thinks he saw on his seventh birthday. He vividly recalls seeing two men digging a hole in the ground in a wooded area near where the missing child U is for Undertow.
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