by Sue Grafton
Part of Kinsey Millhone, book 15
First published 2001
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone gets an unexpected call on Monday morning. A scavenger who buys defaulted storage units has found boxes of her old possessions. For twenty dollars, she buys back her own past. Among childhood keepsakes, Kinsey discovers an undelivered letter that changes everything she believed about her first marriage to Mickey. The letter forces her to question why their relationship ended and whether Mickey was the dishonorable man she remembered. Her investigation connects to an old unsolved murder case. As Kinsey digs deeper into Mickey's past and their shared history, she uncovers dangerous truths that someone wants buried. The case threatens her life as she learns that her memories of their breakup may have been wrong. This fifteenth Kinsey Millhone mystery reveals long-hidden details about the detective's personal history while putting her in mortal danger.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, detective
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: second-chance, unreliable-narrator
354 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Ballantine Books