Sue Grafton

"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only one letter left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack....

Kinsey Milhone agrees to take over a case left unsolved by her private eye friend when he died and finds that she has to start from square one and defend her life while she is at it

Divided into two parts, the nine Kinsey stories show how much of Kinsey is a distillation of her creator's past; in the thirteen stories in the second part of the book, Kit Blue, a younger version of author Sue Grafton, reveals an undercurrent of sadness and muted pain.

After a recent reference to a kidnapping triggers a flood of memories, unemployed college dropout Michael Sutton hires Kinsey Millhone to locate a four-year-old girl's remains and find the men who killed her.

Kinsey investigates two seemingly unrelated deaths: those of a local, shady PI, and of a John Doe on the beach.