Private eye Kinsey Millhone investigates a decades-old child kidnapping triggered by a man's repressed memories in this intricate mystery spanning the 1960s and 1980s.
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Private eye Kinsey Millhone investigates a decades-old child kidnapping triggered by a man's repressed memories in this intricate mystery spanning the 1960s and 1980s.
It's April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone's thirty-eighth birthday, and she's alone in her office catching up on paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. He has a preppy air about him and looks as if he'd be carded if he tried to buy a beer, but 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 ...
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Kinsey maintains emotional distance; minimal romantic elements with no explicit scenes
Central plot involves past child abduction and burial; non-graphic references
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Social drinking depicted in passing
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Explores themes of memory reliability and moral choices
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Child kidnapping and dysfunctional family dynamics central to plot
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