Robin M. (robinmy) - , reviewed on 6/6/2021 + 2046 more book reviews

Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone is approached by Michael Sutton. Michael tells her a story about something that happened on his sixth birthday. He remembers wandering through the woods and discovering two men who are digging a hole. They told him that they were pirates searching for buried treasure. A large bundle was laying under a tree. Michael said he didn't think much about it until he recently learned about an unsolved kidnapping that took place on the same weekend. Four-year-old Mary Claire Fitzhugh was kidnapped. A ransom was delivered but the little girl was never returned. Michael believes that he could have seen the kidnappers possibly burying the body of the little girl. He wants to hire Kinsey to see if it is true.

This is the 21st book in the Kinsey Millhone series. If this particular story had been earlier in the series, I never would have made it this far. There were too many details, too many descriptions, and too many flashbacks. The story itself is set in 1988, but we had many flashbacks to 1963 and 1967. Some of those scenes were interesting, others were not. We were told the identity of the kidnappers in the middle of the story, and we get a lot of scenes of their history from childhood until the present. I don't think that helped move the story forward at all.

Since I absolutely loved the last book that I read in this series (T is for Trespass), I'll be continuing it in the future. My rating: 2.5 Stars.

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