Kinsey Millhone is alone in her office doing paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. Michael Sutton is a twenty-seven year old college dropout. Twenty-one years earlier, a four-year-old girl disappeared. A recent reference to the kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinsey's help in locating the child's remains and finding the men who killed her. As her investigation unfolds, she discovers Michael Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. Is his current story true or simply one more in a long line of fabrications? Print run 1,250,000.