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U Is for Undertow

by Sue Grafton

Hardcover, 403 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $27.95 |

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Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.

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A Is For Appreciation: How Sue Grafton Helped Transform The Mystery Genre

Mystery writer Sue Grafton (pictured here in 2002) died Dec. 28, 2017. Her most recent novel was Y is for Yesterday. Gino Domenico/AP hide caption

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January 2, 2018 • Grafton revolutionized what had become fossilized formula fiction. She tossed out the genre's sexist, racist and nativist clichés and helped make the detective novel matter again.

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December 11, 2009 • Holiday season have you feeling a touch homicidal? Critic Maureen Corrigan offers a selection of sleuth stories and hard-boiled whodunits to satisfy all your deepest literary desires.

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December 11, 2009 • Private investigator Kinsey Millhone searches for missing people and missing memories after a college drop-out contacts her for help finding a grave he swears he discovered at the age of 6 in the newest alphabetical mystery from Sue Grafton.